Canadians with full-time salaries are having trouble affording groceries, according to testimony before a House committee studying high food prices.
The CEO of Canada’s largest foodbank said a third of the people they help in Toronto are employed full-time. “Things are upside down,” CEO Neil Hetherington of the Daily Bread Food Bank told the Commons agriculture committee March 20, as reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
“This is the very first time in the 40 years food banks have been in Canada that we have seen unemployment so low and food bank usage at the rates we are seeing right now,” Hetherington said….