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House Hansard - 320

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 29, 2024 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Clifford Small (Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame, CPC)
  • May/29/24 2:14:10 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, more Atlantic Canadians are hungry and homeless after nine years of the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister than ever before. Folks back home are spending way too much of their family income just to put food on the table. According to the Salvation Army insights report, an astounding 87% of Atlantic Canadians are facing food insecurity. That is up by 13% in just seven months. Last year, the Salvation Army food bank in Gander supplied a record 3,742 households. Based on the past four months, that number will be close to 5,000 for 2024. According to Salvation Army volunteers, there is a sharp increase in the number of seniors looking for assistance to put food on their tables. Sadly, many of them once donated to the food bank and are now unable to do so as they barely have enough money to feed themselves. One thing is certain, the NDP-Liberal government is out of touch, and Atlantic Canadians are out of food and money.
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Hon. Patty Hajdu
  • May/29/24 8:23:37 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, this is the other thing that Ms. Laskold wrote in her email to me. She said, “Every family I have met, their child died in a home, many in their family home or apartment where family was actually helping to care for them. The only family I know whose son was homeless actually overdosed in treatment.” I checked on this, because I was curious to see if her experience with her colleagues and peers in Moms Stop the Harm reflected the national data, and in fact it does. I did not realize this, but many or in fact the majority of overdoses happen to people in their homes. I wonder if the minister could comment on why it is so important that we do not drive substance users to the shame of using alone and how, in fact, using stigmatizing language can actually do just that.
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