Harty

A father of two, avid Toronto sports fan, a Michigan Wolverine fan, and a patriotic Canadian. 🇨🇦

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@GradyTripp00 I could say the same about the pm because the numbers actually prove it and also prove PP is not wrong and there is merit to what he’s saying.

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@CrembuLoL @MapleLeafs Lmao man that’s rough

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@MarkJCarney @EmmanuelMacron Slogan king

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@bluwtrwhtclouds @MarcNixon24 I agree here, this is pure groceries from my family of four without Costco (meat, toiletries, costco-y food)

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

When my husband died in late summer last year, my daughter and I didn't just lose him.

We lost more than half our household income overnight.
Suddenly, every dollar had a job. Every bill became a math problem.

Because my income dropped so dramatically, I became eligible for a GST rebate of about $435.

To some people, that might sound like a nice little bonus.
To people like me, trying to live on less than $27,000 a year, it's not spending money. It's survival money.

Where I live, water, garbage, and recycling cost me $520 every three months. Coincidentally, those bills arrive around the same time as the GST rebate.

So the GST cheque doesn't buy treats. It doesn't fund vacations. It doesn't even make life easier.

It mostly disappears into a utility bill before I can blink.

Today I'm sharing screenshots from my CRA account to demonstrate the federal government's latest affordability miracle with their renamed GST benefit masquerading as the Groceries and Essentials Benefit.

My GST rebate went up.
By six dollars.
Not sixty.
Not six hundred.
Six.

Apparently somewhere in Ottawa, somebody looked at the affordability crisis facing Canadians and thought:

"Hmm, needs more half sandwich."🤔

What makes this worse is knowing there are millions of Canadians out there who need help just as badly as I do, but don't qualify for a penny of it.

People working two jobs.
People trying to raise families.
Seniors watching every grocery bill climb higher.
People doing everything right and still falling behind.

So to @MarkJCarney, I have a simple question.

Why are you celebrating the existence of a Grocery and Essentials Benefit instead of asking why Canadians need one in the first place? How much did it cost taxpayers for the photo-op? Do you not see the hypocrisy in it?

Because that is the part I can't understand. A government should not be standing in a grocery store congratulating itself for handing back a few dollars of taxpayers' own money.

A government should be creating the conditions where people can afford groceries without government assistance.

The goal should be fewer Canadians needing benefits, not more!

I'm not proud to qualify for this.
👉🏻 I don't want to qualify for a government cheque.
👉🏻 I don't want to qualify for a renamed GST rebate.
👉🏻 I don't want my kid to qualify for a school lunch program because parents can no longer afford lunches.

I want an economy where ordinary Canadians can stand on their own feet and keep more of what they earn and be proud about it.

The fact that Ottawa felt the need to rename the GST rebate to include the words "Groceries and Essentials" should have set off alarm bells in every cabinet office in the country.

Because groceries and essentials are not luxuries. If Canadians need government assistance to afford the basics of life, that is not evidence of success.

It's evidence that something has gone very badly wrong.

What makes it even harder to stomach is watching a government talk about borrowing billions for new projects and sovereign wealth funds while ordinary Canadians are being told to celebrate an extra six dollars.

Six dollars!
That's not economic leadership.
That's a receipt. Perhaps the question Canadians should be asking is this:

If #MarkCarney's resume is as impressive as advertised, why do the results look like this?

At some point, Canadians stop listening to credentials and start looking at outcomes. And the outcomes are speaking for themselves!

[Moose on the Loose @dsimieritsch]

@DennisKendel Propaganda

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@ryangerritsen @WayneMathison Wow

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

After watching Pierre Poilievre’s press conference, this is my take:

Canada is not in trouble because of bad luck. We are in trouble because of bad policy.

The Liberals want to call this a “technical recession,” as if families pay “technical rent” and buy “technical groceries.” People live in the real economy: layoffs, insolvencies, food banks, rent, debt, and businesses afraid to invest.

Poilievre is right. You cannot punish energy, bury projects in regulation, tax work and investment, spend like drunken sailors, and then act shocked when capital leaves and jobs disappear.

Canada has oil, gas, uranium, hydro, minerals, forests, farmland, ports, talent, and direct access to the U.S. market. We should be one of the richest, most productive countries on earth.

Instead, we have a government that treats production like a problem and bureaucracy like a solution.

The AI economy, manufacturing, mining, farming, transportation, housing, and trade all need affordable energy and investment. No energy, no growth. No growth, no prosperity.

This is not just a recession. It is the bill coming due after years of Liberal economic vandalism.

Pierre is right to call it what it is. Canada is not poor.

Canada is being restrained.

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@peteremcc The 500 ml water bottle?

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@FemaleJaysFan Just wild

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@YIcyhot20773 @MarcNixon24 Isn’t all of that funded by fundraising? Not from tax payer funds. Believe that’s the key difference.

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@JustinTrudeau @s_guilbeault You guys were both awful at your jobs and stole from taxpayers. Thank god you’re both gone. Canada can start to heal

[Harrison Faulkner @Harry__Faulkner]

We were told by CFIB lobbyists and Restaurants Canada that local Canadians were too lazy to work at Tim Hortons.

Now, on the eve of American competitors moving in, Tim Hortons tells Canadians that it will employ 10,000 Canadians.

Continue the boycott.

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This is just scary.

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@Tablesalt13 Lmao bettering yourself is not allowed

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@BaseballWRLD_ @Prominent_Jaay @realapp I definitely wasn’t expecting that as a jays fan

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@FemaleJaysFan Agree! I like them

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@acekingspades @anymanfitness Yep, not saying it was the correct usage. Just highlighting what OP intended

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@SlafGoalZki Buttson is no schaefer