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Liberals' grocery benefit payments start for eligible Canadians today (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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[–] 14 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Funny thing is I say this about snap in the US. Make it a regular, universal benefit. Restrict it to products grown and processed completely in the country. It would be at that point a massive anti poverty measure that also helps the economy. Its literally a win win. Why is any country exporting food before they feed their own.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    Carney has no intention of reducing poverty rates. At the moment he's presiding over what's going to be a massive spike in poverty as the mortgage crisis ensues.

    He could fix the structural issues that drive the affordability crisis -- one he's perfectly skilled to understand and address -- but instead he's only done things to keep the 1% wealthy.

    This is more of the same. Just buying votes.

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    • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Bandaid solution, based on revenues from 2 years ago. And grocery stores still profit more than ever...

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Fr, what am I supposed to do with ~$270? That's like 2 weeks of groceries at best.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    2 weeks of groceries is better than nothing

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    • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Mirror link broken

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