A Third of Toronto Food-Bank Users Work Full-Time, Says Largest Food Bank

Various brands of bread sit on shelves in a grocery store in Toronto. The Canadian Press/Doug Ives

Canadians with full-time salaries are having trouble affording groceries, according to testimony before a House committee studying high food prices.

The CEO of Canada’s largest foodbank said a third of the people they help in Toronto are employed full-time. “Things are upside down,” CEO Neil Hetherington of the Daily Bread Food Bank told the Commons agriculture committee March 20, as reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.