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Food Banks Canada says food insecurity is worsening across the country

www.theglobeandmail.com

The group says food security is rising in all 10 provinces and one in four Canadians have inadequate access to food

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Fund. Social. Services. Federally.
- Provinces won’t let them
- If your solution is to give more handouts that's not actually fixing the problem, you're just making people even more dependent on government to survive.
  
  How about we tax the rich to pay for it?
  The problem is one of distribution: too much money on one side, too little on the other. Government has some great tools to fix that, but curiously doesn't use them.
  
  Every dollar given to social services circulates 10 through the economy so... it does, actually, go a long way towards fixing the problem.
  
  That's a crock of shit argument. Yes a few percentage will live off that, but the vast majority of people don't want to be in the position where they need government money to survive.
  
  You’ve clearly never had to trade your silver spoon for a cock to get by
I can't wait to hear the details about Pierre Poilievre's common sense way to tackle this.
He's going to tell us all the details, right?
- Step 1. Vote for me
  Step 2. Tax cuts for corporations
  Step 3. Profit! (for the corporations)
If we get a Con government like it's looking we could, then expect this to get much, much worse.
Good luck everyone.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Food insecurity and poverty are worsening across Canada, according to a new report that says governments in the country are not adequately responding to the crisis.
These are families, these are kids who go to school without anything in their lunchboxes,” said Kristin Beardsley, chief executive officer of Food Banks Canada, in an interview.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his party frequently make reference to Canadians’ growing use of food banks as part of their attacks on the Liberal minority government.
Mr. Poilievre raised the report’s findings during Wednesday’s Question Period: “After nine years of the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister’s taxes, debt, inflation and promises, Canadians are hungry.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government is investing in supporting Canadians in need through initiatives such as a national school food program.
Ms. Beardsley said existing projects to combat food insecurity and reduce poverty are “great” but do not do enough to alleviate financial pressures on Canadians in the short term: “We need to make sure people who are not able to afford their lives today have some relief.”
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