Carney's grocery rebate is just a campaign stunt: how about some real fixes?
The prime minister's announcement of GST relief might buy some temporary support, but Canadians deserve real fixes to the economy.
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Guest host: David Menzies
Tonight, David Menzies fills in for Ezra Levant, where he looks at Prime Minister Mark Carney's Nepean, Ont., grocery store “affordability” announcement this week.
The move was a classic Liberal stunt: the PM posing in the produce aisle to announce a 25% boost to the GST credit (now rebranded Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit) for five years, plus a one-time 50% top-up payment this year.
The feds claim it delivers “hundreds of dollars more” to over 12 million lower- and modest-income Canadians.
Carney added $500 million for food supply chain improvements, blaming inflation on COVID, climate change, global issues, and tariffs. All while he ignores a decade of Liberal spending that supercharged costs on just about everything.
David says this latest move from the Liberal leader is a mere band-aid on a gaping wound.
If Carney meant business on affordability, he'd launch a Canadian DOGE to torch government waste, not dole out temporary crumbs.
Real fixes? How about cutting the $885 million yearly on supplemental health for migrants (free eyeglasses, nursing, etc.) while 6.5 million Canadians lack family doctors, David suggests.
Or, end $201 million in executive bonuses despite massive performance misses. Scrap the $6 billion gun buyback boondoggle that targets legal owners, not gangs.
Axe wasteful grants like $105,000 for grocery cart “life cycles” or $94,000 on selfie rhetoric. Ditch $76 million in pointless federal ads and the CBC's $1.4 billion propaganda subsidy.
Virginia's “affordability” Democrat governor ran on relief, then hit residents with new taxes — including a carbon levy adding $1,200 USD to power bills. It was a classic bait-and-switch, he says.
Carney's campaign-style stop at a grocery store has election vibes written all over it. Real affordability means slashing bureaucracy, not grocery cart photo-ops.
Until then, like David says: it's more spending, more deficits — and Disco Inferno, “Burn, baby, burn.”
COMMENTS
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Stephen Brundle followed this page 2026-02-02 12:02:28 -0500 -
Darlene Cooper commented 2026-02-01 01:57:59 -0500We need affordable groceries, not rebates that give us a trickle of our money back.
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Robin Dutton commented 2026-01-31 10:05:14 -0500Blame everything but the root causes. The Liberal energy polices have caused most of these cost increases. Like it or not Canada runs on fuel. Lower the cost of energy. The price of everything will follow.
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Paul McCullough commented 2026-01-31 09:02:11 -0500Carney will run on an “Orange man bad – save Canada” ticket. Of course by “save Canada” he means turn it into a Chinese vassal state, but that part will be buried until after the election.
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Anthony Salotti commented 2026-01-31 07:50:47 -0500The only party that will save Canada now are the Conservatives and boy do they have their work cut out for them .
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Matt Abrahams commented 2026-01-30 22:28:55 -0500Menzoid, you don’t address a prime minister as “Mr./Madame Prime Minister”. You address a prime minister simply as “Prime Minister”.
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Bruce Atchison commented 2026-01-30 20:43:15 -0500Liberals aren’t into real fixes. They want us so dependent on them that other parties won’t have a chance to be in power. Conservatives talk a good game but Liberals are sneaky as the Devil.
