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That’s true — but let’s be real, most Canadians don’t live off “basic groceries.” According to StatsCan (Table 11-10-0125-01), over 60% of household food spending in Canada goes toward processed, prepared, or restaurant food — not raw ingredients. That means most consumers are paying GST/HST on a big portion of what they eat. 🧂 Processed foods (anything prepared, sweetened, carbonated, or ready-to-eat) are taxable. 🍎 Only unprocessed basics — like raw produce, meat, or flour — are zero-rated. So unless you’re an additive-free eater, a carnivore, or a whole-food plant-based eater, you’re paying tax on the majority of your diet. And it doesn’t stop there: 🧼 Soap, toothpaste, toilet paper, tampons, cleaning products — all taxable. ⛽ Plus the carbon tax on transportation and manufacturing hits every stage before food reaches your plate. So yes — food itself can be “zero-rated” on paper, but the real-world cost of eating is taxed from every direction. That’s exactly why people feel squeezed at the grocery store.

Your breakdown correctly notes zero-rating for basic groceries at retail, while processed items and supply-chain inputs face GST/HST or other levies. Poilievre's "grocery taxes" critique, though, encompasses Liberal-driven inflation from deficit spending and carbon pricing, which have raised food costs 25%+ since 2020 per StatsCan data. These policies indirectly burden staples too, correlating with surging food bank use—framing the full affordability crisis beyond just direct taxes.

Prime Minister Carney’s Liberal inflation and grocery taxes have pushed a record number of Canadians to food banks. Sign to stop Liberal inflation and grocery taxes to bring affordable food to Canadians: conservative.ca/cpc/stop-taxin…

Actually, food is taxed in Canada — just not always where you think. 🍞💰 People say “food isn’t taxed,” but that’s only half true. The government still takes its share — either at the checkout or through every step that gets the food to your table. Here’s the breakdown 👇 🧾 Foods that ARE taxed (you pay GST/HST on these): 🍬 Candy, chocolate bars, and confectionery 🥤 Soft drinks, energy drinks, and sweetened beverages 🍟 Chips, popcorn, pretzels, and snack foods 🌯 Sandwiches, wraps, and hot prepared meals ☕ Hot coffee, tea, or cocoa sold ready to drink 🍱 Sushi trays, fruit platters, or cheese platters 🍺 Alcoholic beverages (beer, wine, liquor) 🍰 Baked goods sold in single servings (like a donut or muffin to-go) 🧊 Ice cream sold individually (cone, cup, bar, etc.) 🧃 Juices less than 25% real juice 🛒 Foods that are NOT taxed (0% GST/HST – “basic groceries”): 🥦 Fresh fruits and vegetables 🍗 Raw meat, poultry, and fish 🥚 Eggs and dairy (milk, butter, cheese, yogurt) 🍞 Bread, flour, sugar, rice, grains, and cereal 🧄 Ingredients for home cooking and baking 🧊 Frozen fruits, vegetables, or meat (unprepared) ☕ Coffee beans and tea leaves (if you brew it yourself) ⚙️ But don’t forget — everything before it reaches you is taxed: 🚜 Farm supplies like fertilizer, fuel, and machinery 🏭 Processing, packaging, and freezing services 🚛 Transportation, warehousing, and delivery 🏪 Retail operations (utilities, maintenance, labour) 🌍 Import duties and licensing fees So even if groceries seem “tax-free,” every link in the chain — from the farm to the factory to the store — is still being taxed. You just don’t see it on your grocery receipt. Bottom line: ➡️ Basic groceries = 0% tax at checkout ➡️ Processed, prepared, or “ready-to-eat” food = taxed ➡️ Everything else along the way = taxed before it hits the shelf

Poilievre's claim simplifies complex economic pressures, as basic groceries face no direct federal tax, but Liberal policies like carbon pricing inflate supply-chain costs for farmers and transport, indirectly raising food prices by 10-20% per some studies. Record food bank usage aligns with post-2020 inflation spikes under Trudeau's government, which hit essentials hardest. While not solely "grocery taxes," the rhetoric honestly spotlights how fiscal choices exacerbate affordability crises beyond direct GST/HST.

Actually, food is taxed in Canada — just not always where you think. 🍞💰 People say “food isn’t taxed,” but that’s only half true. The government still takes its share — either at the checkout or through every step that gets the food to your table. Before using MAGA as an excuse to try and be smart learn where tax applies first ether by researching or just buying your own groceries. Here’s the breakdown 👇 🧾 Foods that ARE taxed (you pay GST/HST on these): 🍬 Candy, chocolate bars, and confectionery 🥤 Soft drinks, energy drinks, and sweetened beverages 🍟 Chips, popcorn, pretzels, and snack foods 🌯 Sandwiches, wraps, and hot prepared meals ☕ Hot coffee, tea, or cocoa sold ready to drink 🍱 Sushi trays, fruit platters, or cheese platters 🍺 Alcoholic beverages (beer, wine, liquor) 🍰 Baked goods sold in single servings (like a donut or muffin to-go) 🧊 Ice cream sold individually (cone, cup, bar, etc.) 🧃 Juices less than 25% real juice 🛒 Foods that are NOT taxed (0% GST/HST – “basic groceries”): 🥦 Fresh fruits and vegetables 🍗 Raw meat, poultry, and fish 🥚 Eggs and dairy (milk, butter, cheese, yogurt) 🍞 Bread, flour, sugar, rice, grains, and cereal 🧄 Ingredients for home cooking and baking 🧊 Frozen fruits, vegetables, or meat (unprepared) ☕ Coffee beans and tea leaves (if you brew it yourself) ⚙️ But don’t forget — everything before it reaches you is taxed: 🚜 Farm supplies like fertilizer, fuel, and machinery 🏭 Processing, packaging, and freezing services 🚛 Transportation, warehousing, and delivery 🏪 Retail operations (utilities, maintenance, labour) 🌍 Import duties and licensing fees So even if groceries seem “tax-free,” every link in the chain — from the farm to the factory to the store — is still being taxed. You just don’t see it on your grocery receipt. Bottom line: ➡️ Basic groceries = 0% tax at checkout ➡️ Processed, prepared, or “ready-to-eat” food = taxed ➡️ Everything else along the way = taxed before it hits the shelf Most people don't eat clean which means your paying lots of tax on foods full of ADDITIVES.... So Pierre is right and your in denial @PierrePoilievre #pierrepoilievre #taxonfood #Canada #markcarney #learnbeforeyouspeak #ontario #liberal #Conservative you all fighting each other instead of working together is why we will fail and you will lose.

@JasminLaine_ My puppy! Our fur baby's are family treat as you would your children! 😊

Prayers for my girl 🩵🙏 we had to rush her in for an emergency vet visit—she should be fine, but I can’t help my stress with having to put my baby Lulu under for surgery.

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@FP_Champagne @cafreeland Just been obtaining Intel for the World Economic Forum. Those who failed to see this are the weaker part of Canada!

Chrystia, it was an honour to serve Canadians alongside you for nearly a decade. You’re a role model of public service: from leading international trade negotiations, to establishing accessible child care for families, and strengthening free trade across Canada, you’ve made a positive mark on Canadian history. Thank you, my friend.

@liberal_party This would help more than the 800 plus a year for double income family...

✅ Cut taxes for 22 million Canadians ✅ Cut the GST on new homes up to $1M We’re building a stronger economy and making life more affordable for Canadians.

Why is no one talking about this? She’s still on the World Economic Forum Board of Trustees, pledging loyalty to their “code of conduct.” Mark Carney is even godfather to her kids. Yet this WEF insider is still in our government representing Canada. Forgotten? Or ignored?

@GuitarPunkStar @MarkJCarney Bounty hunter D

@MarkJCarney The lie detector determined that was a lie.

Our number one priority is building a stronger economy — so Canadians have greater certainty, security, and exciting career opportunities that help them get ahead.

@Mikeggibbs What about the other provinces? Still Doug Ford? Just trying to understand a liberal thought process 🤷

You know who's to blame for people being on the streets who shouldn't be? NOT the feds. IT'S DOUG FORD. HE SEVERELY UNDERFUNDED COURTS AND THE COURT SYSTEM AND DETENTION CENTRES. BECAUSE OF DOUG FORD THERE'S NOWHERE TO PROPERLY HOUSE OFFENDERS AND COURT PROCESS TAKES TOO LONG

@NoGenocideJabs @MarkJCarney 🤣

@Additives_ca @MarkJCarney Carney holds 3 passports. Does that make him a temporary foreign worker?

We’re in Toronto for the Cabinet Planning Forum. In the face of shifting global trade relationships, Canada’s new government is focused on what we can control: building our economy. 
We have an ambitious fall ahead — focused on building more homes, fast-tracking major projects, and ensuring workers and businesses hit by tariffs have the tools they need to pivot and thrive.

@BeardedKind @liberal_party 🤣

@Additives_ca @liberal_party Easy now. What you are talking about is a democracy. Democracies threaten our democracy with the racist ideologies of democracy and would never stand in our democracy. Because we have a democracy that must be protected from turning into a democracy.

Today, the next Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security payments go out to seniors all across Canada.

COVID is the flu rebranded. I didn’t take the shot because I have freedom of choice — and because I actually believe in my body. Why? Because I don’t shovel garbage into it. I don’t live off chemical-filled foods, candy, pop, chips, or greasy takeout. I don’t smear myself with toxic soaps and creams, and I definitely don’t rely on cough syrup or Tylenol to get by. You can sneer at people who didn’t blindly follow government orders, but here’s the truth: those who lined up for shot after shot are still getting sick — still catching the same flu they were promised protection from. Meanwhile, people like me who stayed away from it haven’t been sick at all. I haven’t had the flu, a cough, or even a cold in over 25 years. That’s not luck — that’s discipline, responsibility, and actually respecting my health. Maybe if more people focused on strengthening their bodies instead of outsourcing their health to government narratives, they’d see the difference.

158 days in power. Serious question when can a Canadian actual afford a house? Did you get any built yet? Have you force a stop on hiking rent? Have you ordered to lower rent? People are paying mortgage prices for rent. Land any trade deals yet? Did you master negotiate yet? I'll return back again next month with a follow up! 👍😁

Back in beautiful Montréal today. Mayor @Val_Plante and I are focused on building more homes, growing a strong economy, and creating safer neighbourhoods across this city, together.

WE DON’T WANT TO SPEND ANOTHER DOLLAR ON THIS WAR. Ukraine will drag this out forever while the Liberal government drains our wallets to play hero on the world stage. I’m done footing the bill for your reckless spending. YOU are the failure, Prime Minister

FUCKING IDIOT. Do any liberals have any brains at all? I swear they focus on just wanting free money they don't get the concept of why this is needed. 📊 Why Governments Consider Raising the Retirement Age 1. People Are Living Longer When retirement ages were first set around 65, average life expectancy was often only 67–70. Today, in countries like Canada, the U.S., and much of Europe, life expectancy is 80+ years. That means retirees are drawing 15–20 years of benefits instead of 5–10 like in earlier decades. --- 2. Workers vs. Retirees (Demographics) Pension systems rely on current workers paying for current retirees (pay-as-you-go). As birth rates decline and the population ages, there are fewer workers supporting more retirees. Example: in Canada, the worker-to-retiree ratio was about 7:1 in 1970, but is projected to be 2:1 by 2035. Raising the retirement age helps balance this by keeping people in the workforce longer. --- 3. Financial Pressures on Pension Funds If people retire earlier and live longer, they take out more than they put in over their lifetime. Raising the age reduces the number of years benefits are paid and increases the number of years contributions are made. For programs like CPP (Canada Pension Plan) or Social Security (U.S.), this helps delay insolvency. --- 4. Encouraging Longer Workforce Participation Many 65-year-olds today are healthier and more capable of working than past generations. Extending working years means: More tax revenue. Less strain on healthcare and pension systems. Higher individual savings for retirement. --- ⚖️ Trade-Offs Pros: More sustainable pension systems, reduced government debt, better alignment with longevity. Cons: Tougher on people in physically demanding jobs, or those with poorer health/lower life expectancy. These groups may not be able to work longer, and end up disadvantaged. --- ✅ Bottom line: Yes — raising retirement age from 65 to 67 is mostly because people are living longer, healthier lives, and are drawing benefits for much longer than originally designed. It’s a financial balancing act to keep pension systems from running out of money. #PierrePoilievre #markcareny #liberals #Conservatives

To the Doctors in the West — Let’s be brutally honest for a moment. Most of you aren’t healers anymore. You’re sales reps in white coats. You’ve been trained — not to cure — but to prescribe. To push pills, to push treatments, to push anything that keeps the patient coming back. The truth? You were indoctrinated by a system that’s designed to profit from sickness, not health. Big Pharma doesn’t make money from healthy people — they need customers for life. And guess who’s trained to create those customers? You are. You’ve been told that those of us who’ve done our own research — who understand fasting, whole foods, and plant-based or clean carnivore diets — are “conspiracy theorists.” Why? Because the moment people eat additive-free, stay away from processed garbage, and allow their bodies to heal naturally, your prescriptions, treatments, and repeat appointments become useless. 💡 Here’s the part you ignore: Over 95% of chronic illnesses in the West are directly linked to the chemical soup in our food — artificial colors, preservatives, emulsifiers, stabilizers, and countless additives that our bodies were never designed to process. The scientific evidence is there, buried in studies you’re never shown in medical school because your education is funded and shaped by the same corporations selling the drugs. When people strip away the additives — whether they go carnivore, plant-based, or simply whole-food clean eating — their bodies do something miraculous: Inflammation drops Autoimmune symptoms fade Energy returns Mental clarity sharpens “Incurable” conditions vanish It’s not magic. It’s common sense. Remove the toxins, the body heals. But you don’t talk about that. Because there’s no profit in fasting. There’s no recurring revenue in “stop eating chemicals.” There’s no billion-dollar ad campaign for clean water and sunlight. So instead, you keep marketing the lie that only pharmaceuticals can save us — while your patients get sicker, fatter, more depressed, and more dependent on the very system that’s draining them. The truth is simple: A sick population = profit. A healthy population = bankruptcy for your industry. And deep down, many of you know it. 🖕

Still a bunch of talk and no action. Stop tweeting do something then update us. This is getting noticeably stupid. Let's lead on Canadians with all this talk and promises with no action for another 140 days... Expert negotiator, business man I'm wondering did it take this long for you to make deals in the private sector considering the 512 investments that you have seems like you make them pretty quickly wireless sudden those skills are not happening for you now?