Poverty Rates to Rise This Spring Due to Ongoing Food Inflation: Report

Poverty Rates to Rise This Spring Due to Ongoing Food Inflation: Report
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes his way through the aisles of a grocery store, in Val d'Or, Que., on April 3, 2023. The Canadian Press /Adrian Wyld
Jennifer Cowan
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As the cost of food creeps ever higher, so too will Canada’s poverty rate, according to the country’s Department of Social Development.

Ongoing food inflation will rise 14 percent or more this year, which will not only push up the price of pantry staples like peanut butter but will elevate the country’s poverty rate by spring, says a department briefing note obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.

Jennifer Cowan
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Jennifer Cowan is a writer and editor with the Canadian edition of The Epoch Times.
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