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House Hansard - 130

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 18, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 130 - Nov/18/22
Mr. Luc Berthold (Mégantic—L'Érable, CPC)
  • Nov/18/22 11:22:49 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, there is still nothing about liquefied natural gas. More and more people in Quebec are skipping meals or hardly eating because they can no longer afford food, which is becoming increasingly expensive. This week, the Institut national de santé publique du Québec reported that “the proportion of the population experiencing food insecurity has grown from 8% to 15%”. It almost doubled from May 2020 to September 2022. Why do the Liberals want to raise taxes when Canadians are already going hungry?
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Context: House Hansard - 130 - Nov/18/22
Mr. Richard Martel (Chicoutimi—Le Fjord, CPC)
  • Nov/18/22 11:35:07 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, people are skipping meals and going hungry because they can no longer make ends meet. It sounds like I am talking about people somewhere else in the world but no, I am talking about Canadians, people in Canada, in a G7 country. Every month, 671,000 Quebeckers, a third of whom are children, use food banks. The reasons are obvious: inflation and rising food prices. Will this government stop impoverishing Canadian families and promise them that it will not raise taxes?
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Context: House Hansard - 130 - Nov/18/22
Mr. Richard Martel (Chicoutimi—Le Fjord, CPC)
  • Nov/18/22 11:36:23 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, it might be more important for people to have something to sink their teeth into before we worry about dental care. Food insecurity is not even something we should be talking about in Canada, and yet one out of two employed people are experiencing food insecurity. Men and women who get up every day to go to work are going hungry. Things have gotten that bad in Canada. We have workers who are poor. Will the government stop impoverishing families and guarantee them that it will not raise taxes?
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