Poilievre blames carbon taxes for ‘skimpflation’ and Canadians’ lack of nutrition, Trudeau denies

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre pointed his finger at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the House of Commons Tuesday for causing “skimpflation” — a wordplay which Poilievre described as the level beyond inflation and “shrinkflation” in which food processors intentionally “strip out the nutritional value of food” to pay the liberal government’s carbon taxes.