The Mississauga Food Bank CEO testifies on grocery rebate at House of Commons Finance Committee
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- On May 17, 2023, The Mississauga Food Bank CEO, Meghan Nicholls, was invited to testify in front of the House of Commons Finance Committee. She spoke on the grocery rebate, record-breaking food bank usage across Mississauga, and what it will take to end food insecurity.
What a shame, she's asking the government for assistance, the very people who created this MESS.
How about first, and foremost, reducing the tax burden on taxpayers by cutting the carbon tax. I’ll bet that will, within a few weeks or months, that will reduce the numbers of people having to use the food banks nation wide. It won’t stop the need for food banks but will reduce it. Food banks are and have been a critically vital means of feeding people who are struggling to make ends meet. The carbon tax makes this even more difficult for these people because, even if they are not being taxed directly the cost of food and essential services are increasing because of the carbon taxes.
Amen to that!
When you know that this is all by design, and intentional, then it becomes self-evident that they will not be cutting taxes...only continually increasing them.
Yes except that the oil companies will increase gas prices, the energy sector will increase costs to consumers and the government will cancel the carbon tax credit to taxpayers. A Lose, Lose, Lose proposal for taxpayers.
Yes there were people barely getting by before the carbon tax and inflation a problem was speculated but just ignored they tax the farmers that grow the food too so lots of farms will go under food will be more expensive. It should be the large factories etc. that need pay more for polluting not average people just trying to survive.
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Why do so many Canadians put faith in the problem solving skills of those who created the problems in the first place?
There might be a need for food banks, but when people put booze, cars, cell phones, children they never could afford, smokes, and tattoos ahead of feeding them selves…. It’s like feeding pigeons, the more you give them, the more show up.
Is there a study out there that concludes that these are the folks represented by food bank users ? Covid decimated many lower income earner sources of income. Rent/mortgage costs have increased SUBSTANTIALLY for many, and grocery and other essential needs have escalated far beyond increases in wages. This has put the squeeze on a significant number of families. Hoping you never have to feel the stress and desperation of wondering how you are going to feed your family.
@@michaelolive5070 Funny how not one person in government are complaining about the price of food/ gas/ rent etc... and none of them are worried about feeding their family.
@tillyburton5402 are you referring to MPs, or everyone who works for a government ?
It's really sad when you can't even afford booze anymore, one of life's little pleasures during such difficult times !
@@tillyburton5402 It's because those who never complain, or even feel the high costs of food and bare necessities, are "more equal" than everyone else !
Even though all men are created equal !
It's obvious Government could care less about people struggling these days, prime example look at the person behind her playing on his phone instead of paying attention of what she's saying.
One person dictates your characterization of 'government' ? Perhaps they were present on entirely different business. Who knows ? But by all means, use this singular observation to support your POV.
We don't need more government intrusion into our lives. What we need is a different government. So those who still feel the need to vote lib or ndp all I have to say is thanks for bringing down this road of deprivation and suicide.
1) Less government
2) DIfferent government
We need both
One has to ask " How is it that demand for food banks is escalating ? " Uncontrolled cost of accommodation and huge increases in cost of food mostly. How is federal government responsible for either of these ? More importantly, what chance would there be that CONS government would do anything to improve ?
You're talking to those that created the problem!!
Massive overspending with printed money and ever-increasing carbon tax on everything that moves, is driving up inflation.
Making Canada completely unaffordable to live in. Thus destroying the middle class.
Please start community gardens and teach people how to grow veggies. Canada has more land than people!! Many will let you borrow land for growing.
Teach people to fish !!!
What do they do the other 6-8 months of the year?
@@cdncitizen4700 Get a job and work or a second part time job. Learn to run a chainsaw and cut trees to sell. You charge people to cut their tree then sell the firewood. Double income !! We have done this for 20 years !! Work at a sawmill and trade your labor for free logs to build a home, etc. Thanks
Feed Canadians first. Please and thank you. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Your grocery bill will balance itself.
Well said
SHAME SHAME ON EVERYONE IN THIS CABINET…8.5 BILLIONS FOR THE WAR IN UKRAIN.NOTHING FOR CANADIAN IN NEED.
Except a grocery rebate, carbon tax rebate, CERB, etc.
@figgerhead why confuse rhetoric with facts ? 😂
@@michaelolive5070 which one will not be factual. Gas and oil companies will increase prices, utilities will increase prices or carbon tax rebates wii be cancelled.
@figgerhead my post was intended to support yours .. the comment was directed at the original "nothing for canadians". Many in my family would not have survived financially without CERB. As to your last reply, my own opinion is that they should use high percent of carbon tax towards, non CO2, renewable energy. And the remainder to help those below poverty line. And maybe a government sponsored plan to develop cheap electric cars instead of subsidizing expensive ones that only well off can afford.
What about single seniors
For all that supported Liberals/NDP,...JUST REMEMBER, ..YOU WANTED THIS!
No, No more money to throw at bad programs, jobs, is what is needed, get these people working, free stuff just allows more and more people to sit on there asses and do nothing. It’s a stop gap only and all it should be, 8 million in Mississauga only, enough is enough. We need jobs and people need to stop getting money, our money to sit at home and do nothing. Period
How do you reconcile accommodation and grocery costs increasing 20-40 % with wages going up 0-5 % ? Just maybe some of those folk DO work but lost jobs during Covid. Just maybe they are trying to pay huge increases in rent and trying to feed their children at the same time grocery stores are making record profits.
Yeah landlords
When middle class start using food banks because of TRUTURD policies.
I'm born-to-lose autistic. I hate food banks-having to stand in line for half a day with smokers, then to get stale old shitty food that you have to rush to eat before it is compost. Everyone should get to choose and eat fresh! I hate la Bouchee Generouse in QC! Le Cafe Centreville is better 50 cents for a meal which is good resto quality 80% of the time, no long lines.
Wait smokers are aloud to smoke in public, your lucky to live in a free province ...
@@triggerwarningiidentifyasc725 Stupid assed habit I wish would die out-I quit smoking pot 31 yrs ago-yes I was stupid too!
In BC welfare and disability pay $4500 for rent a year... If you find a doctor ? WCB OR EI don't want to pay..! Government Services are broken so.. Maid !
Why is she encouraging legalized theft ? Whats her cut ?
Stop taking our earnings from us and we can afford to buy food ourselves…..
How much money she as a CEO making??? While asking for aid
Our governments, no matter municipal, provincial, or federal, they have so many money to use to help the poor of low level peoples in order to obtain their votes in coming elections. When governments have no money to pay the welfare, increase of taxes is one of the best way to support the political party to protect their position in the government. If increase in taxes results in a large objection from the taxpayers, the government will use the last resource to increase income and that is "selling bonds".
No taxpayers will suffer from "selling bonds" for the current year and coming few years in taxes payment. But it is a bomb for my future generations.
Fire Trudeau!!¡
Right . Because he's responsible for double digit % rent and grocery price increases. I'm so darn tired of the segment of our population that believes JT is the reason folks are struggling. As if Conservative governments are the answer to helping families who are struggling. When pigs fly..
So we're putting people from other countries instead of own impoverished elderly and disabled....what could go wrong
We always have and will plus we spend more money on Halloween costumes for our dogs then we put into food banks and churches that actually give to the community. Look for yourself because it is sad but if I am being honest I myself can not figure out how to fix it. I am sure it is possible and I wish someone finally does because it is getting to a point there will be 2 type of Americans.....Rich ones and poor ones and the others will leave or die off/become sickly and can not afford proper healthcare. Is that radical yes but ask me again in 25 years.
Smoke and mirrors. Cost has not jumped from 2.5 to 8 million" owing to real estate, living wage and relative grocery cost increases. Let's get real please. Thats a 200%+ increase. I'd fire the CEO if that's the best they could do. Your 'cost' shouldn't be representing the increase in funding/contributions spent to fund pandemic demands.
it would be nice if mississauga helped to vote out liberals. this issue is directly linked to liberal misguided policies. quantitative easing, horrendous debt, new taxes on farmer fertilizers, three increases on fuel for deliveries - and there are more reasons why..... but i implore to the ppl of mississauga to strategic vote conservative. the ppl of toronto are a different animal. the ppl here are disciples of the liberal party and nothing factual or reasonable will sway their minds..... but mississauga you have voted both parties in the past.... so your vote is a more cerebral one.
Mississauga will never vote out liberals because majority of people in sauga were immigrants or the parents of immigrants coming to this country canada.. the happy happy joy promise land..just like brampton.
They will vote liberal red because they got there start in this country because of Trudeau father or liberal prime ministers and Jt himself and this is passed onto family members to vote liberal red till they die..
Not surprised
No, more, reciever, the, money, allowonce, grocery,
We Need Government legislation to force Grocery Stores to stop being greedy and stop increasing prices every other month.
More Government legislation to stop Landlords being greedy on rent prices.
Not a band aid Grocery rebate that only helps for a few days of food but won't do nothing to help anyone long term.
We need long term Government legislation to stop Corporations and landlords being greedy and taking advantage of people.
Also legislation that forces Companies to increase employees salaries to actually match inflation.
Also Government to increase disability payments to be double what they are now to actually help those in need.
This would actually help people long term.
Not all landlords are greedy, but the municipalities who collect property taxes water taxes, etc, raise their prices every year ! So does the insurance, and maintenance and repair costs, and now, even the mortgages !!
How many people refuse to work, but rely on the food bank?
I was born, after 72 hrs labour, 2 mos. premature and autistic. I went on to almost die 150X in my first 18 mos. in an incubator. I was "saved" rfor what? A long stupid life of poeverty and failure. If docs didn't have the hear to tell my mom that i wasn't viable then at age 18, I should have had my bleak future told to me and given a cyanide capsule to use should I so choose-poverty best nipped in the bud! There are millions like me!
she looks like she's never missed a meal.
What's her yearly salary.
Every dollar donated ,how much goes to the food bank.
Folks are flooding to use food banks because RENT and GROCERY costs have run amuck. Until government(s) are prepared to legislate control of these costs, the 5% will continue to drive more and more people to food banks. National housing strategy is needed, not runaway funding to foodbanks.
What you're advocating has been tried before and doesn't work. You can't just control prices because that affects supply in the long run.
Unfortunately we need less government in the system and the system overtime will correct itself. More the government gets involved with rebates/ handouts or price-fixing will make it even worse.
@brettthomas5605 I understand there are no simple solutions. However, as the number of people unable to make ends meet increases (largely due to inflation and profiteering far exceeding income gains), something has to change. While I'm not a fan of government intervention, at some point, there needs to be some dynamic to offset the rich getting richer and the poor, poorer. Your solution ?
@@michaelolive5070 there are solutions,but way too many and nor do I want to describe them on UA-cam.
But I will say this,there needs to be an immediate change of government with a change of policy.
Also all carbon taxes have to go now!! It is killing the working class in this country. Taxes will do nothing for the environment. Example here being British Columbia. Emissions are not going down by applying taxes. What they are doing is destroying people's lives by adding fuel to the inflation fire!!
@brettthomas5605 Saying there are solutions but I won't summarize them is lame. The "we need to get rid of JT" is simple and predictable. Studies have shown that carbon taxes do shift behavior change, in part owing to economics/profit optimization, and you're correct in saying taxes in themselves will not change the environment. Investment in reducing use of fossil fuels will. This is my biggest issue with carbon taxes. Simply flipping it back to lower income earners doesn't change much. In my opinion, the Green Party was once the best hope for real change, however it has completely lost traction.
@@michaelolive5070 you mean Investments in advancing technology that eliminate emissions coming from fossil fuels.
Fossil fuels will always be with us forever! Those that think otherwise are completely delusional. They don't want to deal with reality.
Then there is the question of how do you replace the wealth created from this industry. Goodbye to your beloved Public Healthcare System! Along with other social programs!
Anyway have a nice day!
We don't need programs. We need less government, less tax. Period
Higher employment less poverty.
Women voted for Trudeau because they thought he was cute. Canada is over.
Boring.
Hand out cigarettes, booze and drugs to those who want them to keep them out of the lines for those who truly want and need food. I hate charity, I waited yrs to get subsidized housing and this year I got it only to reject it. Why-because in all of Quebec City-there is not one single non-smoking unit, bldg. wing, floor-anything FFS. I might rather be homeless-at least the air will be fresher!
BEGGARS can't be choosers. Hope you have an UMBRELLA. Have fun.
@@thefreestylefrEaK That stale food should just go straight to the compost. More people, yes even poor people should be able to get tghe food while still fresh-hey I told you-needy por stupid and austic as I am, I never go to the FB-waste of time!
Funny how not one person in government are complaining about the price of food/ gas/ rent etc... and none of them are worried about feeding their family. And why is that, are the government not the middle class???? if they are not then they are upper, then they should have the luxury tax imposed on them.
Liberals cater to their elitist friends. NDP has long forgotten how to represent the working man I'm afraid. Conservatives are the ONLY party that represents the hard working value producing members of Canadian society today !
This lady looks like she ate most of the food in the food bank