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House Hansard - 230

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
October 5, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 230 - Oct/5/23
Mr. Alexandre Boulerice (Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, NDP)
  • Oct/5/23 10:37:03 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-56 
Madam Speaker, I would like to share a story. There are are four grocery stores just a block away from where I live. One of them is a major chain store, like the oligopolies my colleague is talking about. Another one is a small independent grocery store owned by a Portuguese family. All their children work there. Strangely enough, the prices at the small independent store are sometimes half of what the chain store charges. Inflation, however, supposedly affects everyone equally. There has to be something wrong with the logic of the major grocery chains. I would like to know what my colleague thinks when the Liberals, half-heartedly and almost on bended knee, beg these huge oligopolies to stabilize prices. What is the use of stabilizing prices when prices are already too high and people are going without food?
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Context: House Hansard - 230 - Oct/5/23
Mr. Sukh Dhaliwal
  • Oct/5/23 10:54:41 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-56 
Madam Speaker, we are also looking to give more powers to the Competition Bureau to conduct marketing studies and compel information from companies so a decision can be made to bring the prices down.
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Context: House Hansard - 230 - Oct/5/23
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Oct/5/23 2:28:32 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, prices have risen so fast that Canadians did not want champagne for Thanksgiving; they just want some food. I did a little price shopping on that for him. In the last days of the Conservative government, the price for a pound of turkey was $1.49. The flyers today show it is $2.49, a 70% increase. I might add that the picture of the turkey during the Conservative years was a big plump beautiful bird, whereas right now it is a skimpy, shrimpy little thing that looks like it has been taxed to death. Why will the Liberals not get off the back of the turkey so we can have a nice dinner for Thanksgiving?
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Context: House Hansard - 230 - Oct/5/23
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Oct/5/23 2:58:29 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years of the NDP-Liberal government, the price of everything is skyrocketing. “Canada's Food Price Report 2023” states that 64% of Canadians are altering their food-buying habits, moving to dollar stores for groceries and buying less nutritious food. Three per cent of people are eating less. The report blames energy and input costs for this food crisis. The Prime Minister is not worth the cost. Will the Prime Minister lower food prices by Thanksgiving, or will he break his promise to Canadians?
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