HALIFAX, CANADA — Opposition parties in Canada are seizing on the highest inflation rate since 1983 to batter the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, less than a year after it was returned to office for a third term.
“I was shocked how many people came up and said to me that was their first meal of the day. That is unbelievable,” said Conservative Party member of Parliament Rick Perkins who hosted a free BBQ at his constituency office in Nova Scotia to mark the July 1 Canada Day holiday.
“The cost-of-living increases are very tough. Every day people are phoning our office crying that they can’t afford food, they can’t afford their medicine,” he told VOA.
