December 5, 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Ottawa, ON – After nine years, the NDP-Liberal carbon tax has caused the price of groceries to skyrocket. This was confirmed today by Canada’s Food Price Report for 2025. This revealed that an average Canadian family of four will have to spend $800 more on food in the coming year.
Overall, the cost of food will increase by 3 to 5 percent in 2025, causing families to spend $16,833 in total on food throughout the year. The cost of meat and vegetables will increase even more, with the price of meat rising by 4 to 6 percent, and the price of vegetables rising by 4 to 5 percent.
Canadians are already struggling, and things only look set to get even worse. A few weeks ago, Food Banks Canada reported that there were 2,059,636 visits to a food bank in March 2024 – an increase of 90 percent from 2019. In Ontario alone, Feed Ontario reported that in the last two years, the number of people accessing food banks had increased by 73 percent. There are now more than a million Ontarians visiting food banks, more people than are living in New Brunswick.
The rise in the cost of food has come as a direct result of Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax. Trudeau just doesn’t understand that if you tax the farmer who grows the food, and the trucker who ships the food, you end up taxing the family who buys the food. But instead of giving Canadians relief, the NDP-Liberal government is planning on hiking the carbon tax again next year, as part of their plan to quadruple the carbon tax to 61 cents per litre by 2030.
Already, the NDP-Liberal carbon tax has resulted in food prices increasing 36 percent faster in Canada than it has in the United States.
Canadians deserve better. Only Common Sense Conservatives will bring home lower prices for Canadians at grocery stores by axing Trudeau’s inflationary carbon tax.
