Food bank use in Canada has surged to the highest levels ever recorded, with nearly 2.2 million visits in March alone, one-third of whom were children, according to a new report released Monday.
Just a wild guess BUT the housing shortage and increased Food Bank customers wouldn't be because of the millions and millions of 'newcomers' to Canada over the years would it ? Our Welfare System is almost as generous as Britains and that still isn't enough? This is a problem the Federal Government won't touch with a ten foot pole as they created the problem.
Geez ya think so Wanda? We are having a hard time looking after those that are here and this idiotic government keeps letting more in. Time to prioritize Canadians.
Yes freedom has a price to be paid . It may be I that do not survive , but at least My Grande children and great Grande children may have a place to live where freedom and liberty abound. Maybe!
No, started long ago. Government simply stopped investing into value added economy and stayed resource based. The easy way for them, they get rich with corruption and so on while the people lise their drive.
That's because people have been complacent. And the lieberals knew this. They went under cover to encourage the ignorance, so that the elite would profit big while they allowed the UN wef agenda take control. In the end if anyone is rightfully blamed, it will be the conman and his colleges. mean while we will be stuck in a hole like Venezuela.
I am of 2 minds on food banks. I grew up quite poor, and ate a very basic diet as a child. I am grateful we could never afford processed foods of any kind, as i and my siblings are in excellent health I believe as a result . I suspect most if the food given out at food banks would be highly processed and not really good for anyone. Also, hunger is a fantastic motivator. If people are simply handed food, what will motivate them to do what they need to do to provide for themselves? I also worry about school food programs also filled with easily managed processed food that do not nourish the children, but simply fill the belly. We may be solving one problem, but adding many more in terms of children struggling to focus in class because of what they just ate, and long term health consequences because of the junk they were fed.
Well of course under Lieberal mismanagement, outright and open graft and grift the countries future has been abandoned it’s populace faced with a doubled cost of living combined with a greatly reduced opportunity to even purchase an affordable home. Taxation has increased, incomes stagnant and unemployment rising. Of course the food banks are being overwhelmed by demand by Canadian families who have been sacrificed on the Globalists alter to their climate change Gods. Canadian Liberals have siphoned off all of Canadas hopes and dreams and sent them overseas to their international Pirate brethren, international corporate criminals who insist on Cheap imported labour funded by Canadian taxpayers.
"If people are simply handed food, what will motivate them to do what they need to do to provide themselves". It doesn't ! I live outside a rural town and there are 3rd generations on welfare. Why work if you can get it free ? That is what happens with a Socialist government.
Yep, and here is the proof...The Agenda 2030 is in its final stages. We have lost many battles in this authoritarian war and the writing is on the wall that societal stupidity and trust into our govt's, is the win for these parasitic bastards...
The lieberal's national school food program is likely another scam to skim money off. It should be mandatory for all mps to have their banking info posted for all to see. Not allowed offshore accounts. The lieberals ar so crooked they would likely be hanged if the public was able see all the corruption they have going on.
1. Housing Prices are what Banks are willing to lend. Banks are incentivized to lend more because that is how they make profits. We need to have a long hard conversation about accounting practices as they should only be able to show profit when the Morgage is PAID OFF. 30 years ago, most people paid off their morgage at about age 45 and then had 20 years to save for retirement.
2. Productive Assets. A house is not a productive asset, but most Canadians spend thier life paying off a morgage on a house that only returns income if they sell it & it has increased in value. A productive asset is something that shows return throughout its life. A garden is a productive asset, a small business is a productive asset, a sewing machine is a productive asset.
3. The poor are pushed into small apartments with no garden, no machine shop, no work space. There is no opportunity to make money other than at a job. In other words there is no opportunity to improve thier situation creatively outside of employment.
4. A lot of regulations are barriers to entry. Many people are great cooks, but with out a commercial kitchen, and Health Services approval they cannot purchase old apples, make apple pie, then sell that apple pie. (This has nothing to do with contaminated food & everything to do with making sure that there are not more apple pies for sale)
So the question is, what does a Conservative Economy that believes in Self Reliance look like? Not what we have right now.
Your right housing is not a great investment, maybe looked good from 2018 to 2024, but now house prices are dropping and property prices/maintenance increasing.
I have been saying the same thing about one of the advantages of owning a home is that it allows people to have tools, a bike, a panel van to run a business with, a garden to learn about life in
I dont agree with the the Breakfast Program for one reason only,It allows the Adults to stay in bed and not get up to make a Breakfast for their Children, lazy means lazy
I agree. When will people stand on their own two feet if the government keeps giving food, dental, housing for some. No pride of ownership or being able to look after yourself. As a kid, I came from a poor family, but we never saw ourselves as poor and never once did my parents ask for a handout. There were 9 of us to feed and clothe.
I have driven past Calgary Food Bank and have volunteered there in the past, and I have never seen so many people queued up in their cars in either direction; this validates the reality. As I have said before, impoverishment, societal collapse and de-industrialization are features, not consequences, of Marx Carnage's zealous 'Net Zero' drive. Same is happening in Germany, the US, Oz, NZ .... government caused inflation and flat incomes equals increasing abject poverty and government dependence.
Wanda Lambert has got it right. Mass immigration in general has raised housing costs, so less money for food. The surging refugee claimants, a part of mass immigration, is leaving less money for Canadians in need. The best way out is for the government to make our economy stronger by increasing R and D, getting those pipelines built, cutting small corporation business taxes and removing ESG and DEI constraints. Looking for new trading partners is useful only if Canadians have competitive businesses that sell more than natural resources.
Canada should be one of the richest countries in the world because of our resources. Instead we are sinking into energy poverty and third world status. Thanks liberals and NDP and Greens. You’ve done a wonderful job destroying access to our wealth.
Just a wild guess BUT the housing shortage and increased Food Bank customers wouldn't be because of the millions and millions of 'newcomers' to Canada over the years would it ? Our Welfare System is almost as generous as Britains and that still isn't enough? This is a problem the Federal Government won't touch with a ten foot pole as they created the problem.
Geez ya think so Wanda? We are having a hard time looking after those that are here and this idiotic government keeps letting more in. Time to prioritize Canadians.
Maybe canada should pay born and raised Canadians 83,000 dollars like they give you the gimmegrants and food banks could be used by the intruders
Canada... Sorry... What used to be Canada.
Was entering third world status at the speed of sound starting around 2015.
IS NOW entering third world status at the speed of light.
For that one first thank Liberal (non) Governance and then the fake Conservatives with a smattering of BC NDP inserted for good measure.
Never thought I would see that day but it has sadly arrived.
Sadly the crash is exactly what will be needed for people to act.
The thing with crashes is that in many cases, perhaps most the victim(s) don't ever fully recover if they recover at all.
Yes freedom has a price to be paid . It may be I that do not survive , but at least My Grande children and great Grande children may have a place to live where freedom and liberty abound. Maybe!
Hopefully it won't be too late at that point. I cry for what was once a great country.
Yes. What a country we could have been with proper management. Our people should have demanded better and this current state would not exist.
Makes one want to weep. All started with that twit Trudeau.
No, started long ago. Government simply stopped investing into value added economy and stayed resource based. The easy way for them, they get rich with corruption and so on while the people lise their drive.
That's because people have been complacent. And the lieberals knew this. They went under cover to encourage the ignorance, so that the elite would profit big while they allowed the UN wef agenda take control. In the end if anyone is rightfully blamed, it will be the conman and his colleges. mean while we will be stuck in a hole like Venezuela.
Sadly you state inconvenient facts. Canada's future ruined by Libranos.
I am of 2 minds on food banks. I grew up quite poor, and ate a very basic diet as a child. I am grateful we could never afford processed foods of any kind, as i and my siblings are in excellent health I believe as a result . I suspect most if the food given out at food banks would be highly processed and not really good for anyone. Also, hunger is a fantastic motivator. If people are simply handed food, what will motivate them to do what they need to do to provide for themselves? I also worry about school food programs also filled with easily managed processed food that do not nourish the children, but simply fill the belly. We may be solving one problem, but adding many more in terms of children struggling to focus in class because of what they just ate, and long term health consequences because of the junk they were fed.
Unfortunately, there are some people who abuse the system, including their access to food banks. I know of at least two personally.
A very thoughtful point of view. I was raised on a farm. We were poor, but we had lots of food, as we produced most of it ourselves.
Well of course under Lieberal mismanagement, outright and open graft and grift the countries future has been abandoned it’s populace faced with a doubled cost of living combined with a greatly reduced opportunity to even purchase an affordable home. Taxation has increased, incomes stagnant and unemployment rising. Of course the food banks are being overwhelmed by demand by Canadian families who have been sacrificed on the Globalists alter to their climate change Gods. Canadian Liberals have siphoned off all of Canadas hopes and dreams and sent them overseas to their international Pirate brethren, international corporate criminals who insist on Cheap imported labour funded by Canadian taxpayers.
This is intentional destruction of Canada according to the WEF plan.
"If people are simply handed food, what will motivate them to do what they need to do to provide themselves". It doesn't ! I live outside a rural town and there are 3rd generations on welfare. Why work if you can get it free ? That is what happens with a Socialist government.
Some do have pride but others will suck off the teat and not try to do better.
And agreed to by the UN.
Meanwhile, China buys up farmland at a frenzied pace in an attempt to take over the food supply.
And they rent it all out to the big farmers at an exorbitant price.
Yep, and here is the proof...The Agenda 2030 is in its final stages. We have lost many battles in this authoritarian war and the writing is on the wall that societal stupidity and trust into our govt's, is the win for these parasitic bastards...
I like the title you hang on them.
The lieberal's national school food program is likely another scam to skim money off. It should be mandatory for all mps to have their banking info posted for all to see. Not allowed offshore accounts. The lieberals ar so crooked they would likely be hanged if the public was able see all the corruption they have going on.
Alas, capital punishment doesn't happen in Canada anymore 😕
Too bad, isn't it.
Conservatives need to rethink economics.
1. Housing Prices are what Banks are willing to lend. Banks are incentivized to lend more because that is how they make profits. We need to have a long hard conversation about accounting practices as they should only be able to show profit when the Morgage is PAID OFF. 30 years ago, most people paid off their morgage at about age 45 and then had 20 years to save for retirement.
2. Productive Assets. A house is not a productive asset, but most Canadians spend thier life paying off a morgage on a house that only returns income if they sell it & it has increased in value. A productive asset is something that shows return throughout its life. A garden is a productive asset, a small business is a productive asset, a sewing machine is a productive asset.
3. The poor are pushed into small apartments with no garden, no machine shop, no work space. There is no opportunity to make money other than at a job. In other words there is no opportunity to improve thier situation creatively outside of employment.
4. A lot of regulations are barriers to entry. Many people are great cooks, but with out a commercial kitchen, and Health Services approval they cannot purchase old apples, make apple pie, then sell that apple pie. (This has nothing to do with contaminated food & everything to do with making sure that there are not more apple pies for sale)
So the question is, what does a Conservative Economy that believes in Self Reliance look like? Not what we have right now.
Your right housing is not a great investment, maybe looked good from 2018 to 2024, but now house prices are dropping and property prices/maintenance increasing.
I have been saying the same thing about one of the advantages of owning a home is that it allows people to have tools, a bike, a panel van to run a business with, a garden to learn about life in
Yes let’s give more to Ukraine!
I dont agree with the the Breakfast Program for one reason only,It allows the Adults to stay in bed and not get up to make a Breakfast for their Children, lazy means lazy
I agree. When will people stand on their own two feet if the government keeps giving food, dental, housing for some. No pride of ownership or being able to look after yourself. As a kid, I came from a poor family, but we never saw ourselves as poor and never once did my parents ask for a handout. There were 9 of us to feed and clothe.
Put Environment Canada in charge of the economy. First rule is don’t feed the bears, it habituates the animals they become dangerous to society.
I have driven past Calgary Food Bank and have volunteered there in the past, and I have never seen so many people queued up in their cars in either direction; this validates the reality. As I have said before, impoverishment, societal collapse and de-industrialization are features, not consequences, of Marx Carnage's zealous 'Net Zero' drive. Same is happening in Germany, the US, Oz, NZ .... government caused inflation and flat incomes equals increasing abject poverty and government dependence.
Wanda Lambert has got it right. Mass immigration in general has raised housing costs, so less money for food. The surging refugee claimants, a part of mass immigration, is leaving less money for Canadians in need. The best way out is for the government to make our economy stronger by increasing R and D, getting those pipelines built, cutting small corporation business taxes and removing ESG and DEI constraints. Looking for new trading partners is useful only if Canadians have competitive businesses that sell more than natural resources.
Canada should be one of the richest countries in the world because of our resources. Instead we are sinking into energy poverty and third world status. Thanks liberals and NDP and Greens. You’ve done a wonderful job destroying access to our wealth.