It is no secret that high gas prices are affecting British Columbians and Canadians, but the impact is also affecting organizations.
“Starting to get anecdotal data, just when we’re comparing sort of the previous year and that sort of thing, where there’s more people again coming to the food bank,” Kim Savage, the Surrey Food Bank executive director, said.
Savage said that for many people, there is no room left in their budgets and higher gas prices are making it more expensive to get around, while driving up the price of food as those costs move through the supply chain.
“Sort of a one-two punch,” Savage said.
That same pressure is showing up at the Union Gospel Mission, with staff saying they are seeing more people who need emergency support.
“With the major increase in the cost of gas, we’ve actually noticed an uptick in folks trying to access the emergency hamper for the first time and also trying to access support services after cheque week,” Nicole Mucci with the Union Gospel Mission said.
More pressure may still be coming.
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The Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers says suppliers are already warning stores of price hikes and fuel surcharges.
“If you’re an independent grocer on tight margins of two per cent, that’s not a figure I plucked out of thin air, it’s Stats Can and you’re faced with double-digit price increases from your suppliers, you have to pass those on,” Gary Sands with the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers, said.
All of it is adding up for households already stretched.
The Surrey Food Bank says demand is up 50 per cent from just two years ago and it is still rising.
“The constant struggle with people’s pocketbooks in affordability, lagging economy, all of those sorts of things,” Savage said.
ASK CARNEY IF HE GIVES a F/ K
Remember for the past 5 years when Liberals and their voters told you that higher oil and gas prices have zero effect on food prices and there was nothing they could do?
Oh no Karen doesn’t like the dog collar ad. Better shut down the website
There is an ad for dogs flea collars in this ad. Flea collars have been illegal in Canada for 3 years. Why is there an ad for an item that is prohibited in Canada?
The liberals brag it’s the best in 10 years, oh that was liberals running the country back then also!!
Canadians don’t have anything extra to give anymore and charities will suffer because donations are dropping and the need is increasing because of the economy and that falls at the feet of Carney and this Liberal government even though Carney tries to deflect and blame Trump or the Iran war.
Fuel is still cheaper than it was when we were under the terrorists carbon tax.
Our government is the source of our financial problems, not Trump,not Iran,not war.Just gross mismanagement of the country as a whole
Logically, when the GST was removed from gas, all of the prices “should have” dropped. That was what we were told to believe.
IF that had actually happened, and prices had dropped, this would simply be a bounce back to prices prior to the removal of the fuel GST.
But we all know the corporations jump all over this and even if they still have stock in the warehouse, all prices shoot up, and quickly….never, ever to come back down again.
So many smoke and mirrors