MPS did find a solution by hiking their own pay and leaving Canadians high and dry as always

FJT.

Im sure it couldn't have anything to do with an exponentially increasing carbon tax, out of control spending, and immigration due to ndp / liberal policies.

Sheer is 100% correct, the rest need to go to the loonie bin

Taleeb from Pakistan now Heritage Minster in Canada its simply mind blowing and sickening.

Axe the tax !

How Taleeb become Minster its mind blowing and sickening

Cut the carbon tax. Didn't have such prices until the carbon tax was added.

The Carbon Tax is the most insidious tax to levy a nation. It taxes absolutely everything one needs to live.

PRICES ARE 4 TIMES WHAT THEY WERE IN 2020

9 years in .....pretty much all their fault

Axe the carbon tax.

Just 20%😂? 5 years ago, a watermelon at Costco was at $5.99, now $15.99. Even chicken wings are so pricy.

Sheer is the only person who makes sense on this panel. End the consumer carbon tax

Drop the carbon tax for ALL Canadians, save Canada 🇨🇦 ❤

Get rid of Trudeau 😏

it's too bad they can't answer your simple question Vassy.

Then just call the election and SEE how Canadians want the carbon tax and the NDP’s answer to anything just tax everything!

Why is the "Heritage Minister" talking about grocery prices???? And what does Taleeb know about Canadian Heritage??? This Government is just an absolute joke...

The demand for food has absolutely increased! Does this NDP character think the massive influx of immigrants don’t eat?

Vassy for PM!!

Taxes keep going up could be a reason prices are higher. Government is spending more to service the debt than healthcare and the latest budget is keep on spending. Money printer goes Bruuuu and it all disappears

the solution is a new government.. in fact, the solution to pretty much all of canadas problems, is a new government

Can you kindly have the NDP clearly define what is the difference between PROFIT and EXCESS PROFIT? Like how can anyone quantify how much money a company makes is "excessive"??? Who are you to determine that?

its official we shop in buffalo our prices are DOUBLE then that of the usa why theres no reason

Forget the high Prices..... I've never seen our local Grocery Stores so EMPTY ?

kids school food program what a load of crap. just let parents take home more money so that we can all afford food for our kids, not big governments taking control of our kids by giving them food

Why not have some anti monopoly measures? Take away all the tax benefits the big companies has and ban them from take over or merge with competitors til the price get to a more affordable level

Why aren’t we talking about increasing food supply? Dairy, meat and grain cartels limit the domestic supply of essentials. These Boards need to allow farmers to produce more to improve the supply/demand situation. Taxes won’t fix this.

I love how Taleeb can say that "to have competition is a big big win for Canadians".......yeah, maybe set your sight on Bell, Rogers and Telus and how they use the CRTC to gouge the life out of Canada and have been doing it forever. I guess we only want to pick and choose what industries allow competition. Its all corrupt.

If I can buy watermelon for 299 at a small town No Frills, and it's 10.99 at the loblaws in the city on the same day ,it's not inflation. They don't need another tax ,they need price regulation especially on grown in Ontario.

Giving a grocery benefit is another braindead idea. All we have is a way for governments to subsidize big corp's. We need to expand the small business model and allow Canadians to be succesful.

Liberals will say " we are fighting for Canadians... We will stabilize the price" which means nothing concrete

Vassy is one of the best journalists I have ever witnessed. She comes through with facts and brings real questions to politicians who duck around. Why don't they EVER answer the question straight??!! But I love Vassy's followup questions and facts.

This government talks and talks and talks and talks and does absolutely nothing except spend billions of dollars on things Canadians do not benefit from.

Scheer killed it in this. Absolutely murdered it. Vassey gave it to him hard, and he answered BEAUTIFULLY.

Money printing sounds like a more realistic cause to this (and other) problems than grocery companies supposedly being so greedy they've increased food prices 20%. Canada needs to go on an elimination diet, instead of piling on more and more legislation/bureaucracy.

When grocers are reporting record profits each quarter earnings report, what we are seeing is not inflation but rather "greedflation". We need to hold grocers accountable for high prices

GroceryFlation = GreedFlation ? NDP called that term months ago. Why does NDP not add this urgent demand to penalize grocery companies doing the GroceryFlation ( GreedFlation ) as a Non-Confident Vote this month so this reality of financial pain is resolved completely ?

Vassy, you’re soooo well prepared and professional! Thank you!

What does inflation getting lower means when a chips bag has shrinked by half but sells for same price? We are still getting less for our money. And what happened exactly for the food to inflate so high? We are importing all from other countries and shipping costs have increased because transport companies havent lowered their price after the pandemic? There is a shortage of goods? The population has suddendly doubled and there is not enough supply for the demand? Is it the supply/demand that is at play? Suddenly grocery stores are no longer throwing food in the bin because it didn't sold and expired? Or is it because producers, manufacturers and groceries suddenly got greedy and wanted to increase their profit to please their stockholders? I seriously don't see what is the cause of this steep increase other than greed.

NDP are so out of touch. Adding a tax will only increase prices

Only 20% ? seems more like 50%!

Don't forget what a difference removing small amounts of carbon tax in Manitoba and Saskatchewan made.

The NDP harp on about lablaws “record” profit. They also paid record payroll, they paid record maintenance costs, had record theft. For every 100$ spent lablaws makes 4$ that’s perfectly reasonable.

We had food banks in Canada for how long now ??? Crazy in 2024 , unsanitary ! Just talk

Where is the accountability for violating his oath of office????? This is ridiculous. He needs to be charged!!!

what it means is we vote the incompetent out...taxes do not fix financial ignorance by the NDP and Liberals

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out if you get rid of the carbon tax then the farmer's price will come down, transportation price will come down and grocery prices should come down if not then there's some gouging happening and they should be made to come down!

more competition. need coops accross the country. if you introduce profit tax it get passed onto the consumer. WHEN TAXES ARE INCREASED THE ADDED COSTS ARE ALWAYS PASSED ONTO THE CONSUMER.

Election!

Inflationary spending and the exponential effect of the carbon tax is the cause of over priced food.

20%? Foreign supplies? Same box of eggs from 8 to13, and same bag of flour from 6 to 10. Both are over 60% increase in the last three years, and both are Domestic production.

May be the NDP should also put an excessive profit tax on Provincial Liquor Stores too? It’s okay for governments to make excessive profits but not corporations…,hmmm….

You need to have more than conversations, you need drastic and immediate action.

I am ok granting Sheer his points. I just want to know on the day they take office, how much of my 1000$ grocery bill will go down when the tax is axed.

Bring in foreign grocers ? Are walmart and costco Canadian ?

Rent and housing prices also went up 50% and above within 5 years too lol dont just blame the CEOs We cannot deny everyone has been taking their gains because of inflation and rapid cash printing, Ive went from 26 to 30 dollars an hour within 5 years. Name a tax that hasnt cause more inflation?

Say... how come none of these guys proposed breaking up the monopolies that are already here?

Vassy is amazing. She sure researches her topics. Held everyone's feet to the fire! 17:23

We need more competition period. The only “measures” we should be pursuing are those that make the market in Canada more perfectly competitive. For example getting rid of marketing boards and adjusting regulation and taxation to spur competition in the food processing sector. But hey if we actually lower prices and made people’s life better what would we fundraise off of next election cycle?

Let me get this straight. Adding a 'excess profits tax' will lower prices? Wait... lemme go back to grade 5 math. $5 + %corporatetax + %profittax < $5 + %corporatetax ? Yup. NDP are gooder at math than me. 😆

Does anyone else feel like the key to solving the high grocery prices is all of their proposed solutions combined? Its frustrating that all parties just squabble and fight over something so universal like food security...

So the liberals speaker is asking for transparency from grocers but why can’t Canadians expect the same transparency from the liberals. Example liberals will not release information on foreign interference

Once prices is gone up business owners doesn’t like to bring the prices down . If increase business owners no hesitation to put the price up I worked in grocery store .our profits is small margin For sure inflation is not down

I can't.beive this is even a debate Why is steel 4 times more expensive than wood stud for stud? Carbon tax

PMs should be required to have an economics degree, Turdeau is a failed drama teacher. Enough said, now we are paying the price!

It's the carbon tax ThiS is a no-brainer

I Love Vassy. THIS Is how you press politicians.

Getting rid of the Carbon Tax and the gouging Middleman are likely the best answers! Shop at the Farm instead!!! You will give them your support directly! And they need it for they're producing our food. Kudos to them and their hard work!!!

Let's say carbon tax goes away. Agree that will not solve this issue. I expect more from the Conservatives at this point in the game. The conservatives just making everything about Trudeau is getting old. Please answer Vassy's question clearly instead of going back to the blame game. The liberals do not have any solutions here that is very clear (for whatever reason maybe this is rocket science to them) but the conservatives do not seem to have a solution either. The NDP makes the most sense here (so weird!). Just incentivize and bring in Aldi. everyone else will suddently play ball.

And nothing will change......EVER!!!

It's really the whole shibang. Carbon tax, monopolization of grocery industry, bilingual labelling, etc.

Axe the tax and stop giving away our money!

How about an excess profit tax on Taleeb, who has personally affected housing affordability by personally flipping 41 properties (half within 12 months of owning them) for $4.9 million in personal profits? Hypocrisy at its finest!

If its legal to rob and steal, do you think they will stop because they've just grown a conscience

thanks Vassy for being fair.

Love Vashy pushing them on how slow acting they are, calling them on what's essentially spinning an L into a W.

Sheer is the only one in the room who understands economics. Canadians should be required to pass an introductory economics course before they are allowed to vote.

20%? Some things have gone up 100%

I went to the store to buy pop they're raised Hst by 2% on the bills say 13%, and it didn't add up. So really today, Wednesday HST is now 15% Liberal and NDP just added 2% hike on food pay cheques or other places we pay HST is higher, not brighter. The government thinks we weren't going to notice oops 😬

Put a lock on the immigration gates, and stop saying Loblaw's is on board. It's my understanding that Loblaw's hasn't signed anything, and won't, unless the remaining players agree to signing as well.

Increase peoples wages and cut some taxes so we can take home more of our money we worked so hard for to buy those expensive groceries!!

not up 20%, my feeling is more than 50%! NDP's proposal is a joke to tax more on groceries then grocery stores will charge.more at the end. We nees more competition.

That 20% is a myth it’s more like 50%. If an item was $3.00 and is now $4.25 that is 42% inflation. Then you buy 50-75 items and add tax to some … there is no way it’s only 20%.

Vassey is a great host.

Excess tax on grocers and distribute as credits to need based consumers as in the EU area ? lol

3.7% profit margin.. those greedy corporations

20% seems way low to me ? These deceptive inflation formulas need to change ..

Noor Mohammed ! Isn’t he the guy that flipped @ 45 homes in Vancouver?

Canadians don't have kids , the birth rate is on a steep decline. Exactly whose kids are you feeding with our tax dollars??

All they are willing to do is have conversations not soloutions as they have to admit there are problems caused by the government

You go Vassy they keep avoiding the question lol

prices went up because of money printing and taxes.

Her question is fair. Two years and nothing fixed. So how much longer before you actually do something that actually works

Yikes 😳

Bring it home 🏡

20%? More like 100% increases.

The solution is filed bankruptcy

AXE THE TAX