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LILLEY: Mark Carney's grocery payment an admission Canada's economy is failing

A healthy economy wouldn’t need a government program to help pay for groceries

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Mark Carney visited a Brampton grocery store Friday to celebrate his government’s total failure on affordability.

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The Prime Minister was there to promote the first payment of the new Groceries and Essentials Benefit program, essentially, the rejigged GST rebate.

Now, Carney’s supporters may say this is a victory, it is the government helping low income Canadians.

But in my view, when the government has to help its people buy their groceries, then there is a problem. Clearly the economy is not operating as it should if the government needs to send you money for essentials, which is what they are doing.

Although, not everyone is getting this help.

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