Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2022-06-17 11:00:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Charlie Angus (Timmins\u2014James Bay, NDP)",
        "fr": "M. Charlie Angus (Timmins\u2014Baie James, NPD)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7249127\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, food prices are going through the roof and working-class families are finding it harder and harder to make ends meet. We know that Vladimir Putin's illegal war in Ukraine is driving fears of a global food shortage, but those fears are the perfect cover for the giant food conglomerates that are jacking up prices, not because of inflation but to gouge us.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7249128\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cargill's profits were up 64% in a single year. Loblaws' first-quarter profits are 40% higher than last year.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7249129\" data-originallang=\"en\">What is the government doing? The Liberals, remember, used taxpayers' money to fix Galen Weston's fridges while Loblaws was scamming us over the price of bread, and the Conservatives? Well, their would-be leader says to invest our savings in crypto-Ponzi schemes to beat inflation. I mean, a financial genius this guy is not. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7249130\" data-originallang=\"en\">What we are dealing with is not inflation but old-fashioned price gouging and corporate giants ripping off Canada's working class. The New Democrats say that it is time we took on these corporate giants and got this money into the pockets of working-class families.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7249127\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, le prix des aliments monte en fl\u00e8che et les familles de la classe ouvri\u00e8re ont de plus en plus de difficult\u00e9 \u00e0 joindre les deux bouts. Nous savons que la guerre ill\u00e9gale de Vladimir Poutine en Ukraine entra\u00eene la crainte d'une p\u00e9nurie alimentaire mondiale, mais cette crainte est l'excuse parfaite pour les conglom\u00e9rats alimentaires mondiaux qui gonflent les prix non pas \u00e0 cause de l'inflation, mais pour nous arnaquer. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7249128\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les profits de Cargill sont en hausse de 64 % en une seule ann\u00e9e. Les profits de Loblaws au premier trimestre sont 40 % plus \u00e9lev\u00e9s que l'ann\u00e9e derni\u00e8re. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7249129\" data-originallang=\"en\">Que fait le gouvernement? Les lib\u00e9raux, ne l'oublions pas, ont pris l'argent des contribuables pour r\u00e9parer les r\u00e9frig\u00e9rateurs de Galen Weston alors que Loblaws nous arnaquait avec le prix du pain. Et les conservateurs, eux? Eh bien, leur chef en devenir affirme qu'il faut investir nos \u00e9conomies dans la pyramide de Ponzi des cryptomonnaies pour contrer l'inflation. On ne parle certainement pas d'un g\u00e9nie de la finance. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7249130\" data-originallang=\"en\">Notre probl\u00e8me, ce n'est pas l'inflation, mais le bon vieux mercantilisme des grandes soci\u00e9t\u00e9s qui arnaquent la classe ouvri\u00e8re canadienne. Les n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrates croient qu'il est temps d'exiger des comptes de ces grandes soci\u00e9t\u00e9s et de nous assurer que les familles de la classe ouvri\u00e8re ne se fassent plus soutirer leur argent. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2022/6/17/charlie-angus-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/charlie-angus/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1434/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "11776365",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Statements by Members",
        "fr": "D\u00e9clarations de d\u00e9put\u00e9s"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Food Prices",
        "fr": "Le prix des aliments"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2022/6/17/",
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}