The Liberals legislation cutting the GST-HST on some food items and some children’s clothes and toys for 2 months starting December 15, is completely inadequate to meet the needs of working people who are victims of massive corporate profiteering, exorbitant interest rates, and deep cuts to real wages. Price fixing and gouging by Loblaws, Metro, Sobeys, and Walmart has made food unaffordable and bled dry food banks across the country. The banks and corporate landlords for whom evictions and foreclosures are business as usual, have created tent cities across the country, guaranteeing more deaths from freezing cold this winter and lethal heat next summer. The oil and gas companies who make huge profits by driving up gas prices and threatening cut-offs to people who can’t pay their heating bills, are also the main obstacle to stopping climate change in Canada.
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