About 40 per cent of food banks in the province have scaled back the amount of food they provide each visit amid “record-high demand,” according to a new report by Feed Ontario.
The report, which was released Monday, reveals that usage has “surpassed the capacity and resources” of Ontario’s food bank network, adding that provincial food banks were accessed by more than a million people between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2024. This marks a 25 per cent increase over the previous year. About 43 per cent of those visitors had never used a food bank before, the report states.
A message from the CEO combined with a land acknowledgement in a hunger report. Tell me this isn’t an industry designed to take advantage of rather than alleviate the problem.
How much of foodbank usage is due to Trudeau’s migrants?
Last year, 97.6 per cent of population growth in Canada was due to immigration, however, the increase in people who have “been in Canada for 10 years or less” has contributed to only a third of the growth in food bank visitors in Ontario. This is inclusive of temporary workers, students, refugees, and immigrants who have lived in Canada for up to a decade and are struggling with the cost of living.
So 33% of food bank usage is due to migrants, but in the same breath the report calls that a myth.
That cost of living is exasperated by the extreme rise in rents and costs of home ownership created by a housing shortage fueled by … Trudeau’s migrants.
