Food bank use skyrockets; Ford is MIA

December 3, 2024

QUEEN'S PARK — Ontario Greens Deputy Leader and MPP for Kitchener Centre Aislinn Clancy released the following statement in response to the publication of Feed Ontario’s Hunger Report 2024.

“Food bank use is higher than it’s ever been, and this government doesn’t seem to care.

Over the past two years alone, the number of people using food banks in Ontario has jumped by 73 percent. Nearly one in four of those people have jobs. These are our friends and neighbours who have never had to rely on food banks in their lives until now.

We didn’t get here accidentally. This is a crisis that the government has created by failing to address the rising cost of food and rent. They could put an end to it today, but they’re choosing not to.

We need this government to reign in the soaring cost of basic necessities, especially homes and food, and we need them to raise social assistance rates above the poverty line.

Greens will keep fighting for a province that puts people before profits.”

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