The Canada Revenue Agency will be issuing the long-promised 'grocery rebate' payments to eligible Canadians on July 5. The food-inflation focused affordability measure is set to roll out to approximately 11 million low- and modest-income Canadians. Here's how much money those eligible can expect to receive.
I mean I’m not attacking people with lower means, but this is the stupidest plan ever. Also, as a high income earner, I love how this signifies that I’m not affected by inflation, when I certainly am. My groceries are up 10-20% too, just like everyone else’s. What is the government doing about that?
I wish they’d take these millions or billions, and set up a consumer protection bureau, instead of giving people a few hundred bucks, which isn’t going to fix the problem or really do much. If anything, it’s behavior that just leads to more inflation. the Liberals are just as bad as the conservatives, won’t go after the real problem, because it would involve attacking their bros.
I wish! I’ve had to stop buying several staple foods because prices went up 35-70% in some cases.
And to add insult to injury, packages got smaller, so I’d have to buy double to feed the same number of people (and pay more per package!).
Not only do I think that grocery stores should be forced to refund “excessive profits”, but they should be heavily fined and someone up top should spend time in jail for stealing from the public.
EDIT: spelling
I am curious, what has halved in size that would require you to buy double?
I have not noticed near that extent of shrinkflation.
Half the size might be a bit of a stretch, but shrinkflation is definitely reaching bullshit territory. OP isn’t wrong on that.
I didn’t say packages were HALVED, but for me to feed the same number of people (three adults), I can’t get away with buying a single package (i.e. pasta) without everyone eating less or without being able to make leftovers for the next day. So, I’d have to buy two packages (double the price) instead of one.
This is an insane idea.
While I agree that this won’t fix the issue and that the government should look into solving the issue at its root instead of throwing money at the problem and hope it’ll go away on its own, to say that this measure that is being put in place as an emergency relief for (very) low income folks is the same as telling us, higher income earners, that we’re not affected by inflation is a false equivalence/borderline a bad faith argument.
I don’t want to assume anything about your situation, but you did qualify yourself as a high income earner and, so, keeping this in mind, I’ll use myself as an example: I’m not rich by any means, but I make a good salary. I, too, feel the effects of inflation/shrinkation on my monthly budget. But my spending power, while significantly reduced, is still much higher than the people who are being targeted by this emergency relief. To say otherwise would be hypocritical.
Having to choose a no brand name over the good stuff or realizing that I can’t justify buying meat this month is absolutely not the same thing as having to choose between eating this week or putting money on my bus card so that I can go to work/keep a roof over my head.
No one is saying that higher income folks don’t have to make sacrifices. But to imply that our needs are the same as people who are basically struggling to exist right now just seem a tad… Disingenuous. Just sayin’