Radio minute: Food banks vs. an affordable Canada

October 31, 2025

Monthly food bank visits have doubled, to a record 2.2 billion, impacting 700,000 children every month.

Yorkton–Melville is blessed by many food banks, school food programs and other initiatives that are working to meet the increased need.

Food Banks Canada said that “food banks were never designed to be a backbone of the social safety net. They were meant to be a last resort, not a primary source of sustenance for millions.”

“Canada is not facing a food bank problem. We are facing a food insecurity crisis.”

Conservatives demand an affordable budget for an affordable Canada:

1. By scrapping 4 hidden taxes on food:
   
   a. the industrial carbon tax on fertilizer and farm equipment,
   b. the 17-cent/litre fuel standard tax on gas and diesel,
   c. the billion-dollar food packaging tax and
   d. the inflation tax.
   
2. By cutting taxes on work, homebuilding, investment, and energy, reducing personal income, capital gains, and homebuilding taxes.
   
3. Stopping the inflation tax: by unlocking more resource development and revenue, while cutting wasteful spending on bureaucracy, consultants, corporate welfare, foreign aid, and false refugee claimants.