By Staff
September 10th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
Reading that more than 1 million people visited a Food Bank in the last year is certainly an eye opener – digging into the number and finding this was a 25 per cent increase from the previous year was stunning.
Windsor – MPP Lisa Gretzky said in her statement that “Everyone deserves access to good food and safe shelter – it’s a basic human right. Today we found out that 1 in 14 of our neighbours and friends – working people, seniors and children – are being forced to turn to a food bank just to survive. This is not the kind of province we want to live in. With the cost of everything going up we have a government right now that has done nothing to make life more affordable for Ontarians.
“It’s been eight consecutive years of rapidly increasing food bank usage. Things are broken in Ontario, and we need a progressive government who will get serious about making it better. It’s time for change.”
Communities are holding events that focus on the collection of food that goes to the Food Bank
What changed in the past 12 months to get the number of people needing food support as high as it is? Food prices? Is that all?
If it is food prices – where are we with the investigation in the rapid increase in food prices and the increase in small boxes of cereals being sold to us at the same price at the super markets?
And – how does the ability to buy beer at the local grocery stores align with the huge increase in the number of people who can’t afford to buy the food they need.
I’m waiting to hear what the experts have to say on all this.
