Weekly Wrap Up: The Cost of Carney
Ottawa, ON – As Carney was reassembling his predecessor’s cabinet and continuing his jet-setting tour without anything to show for it, Conservatives were highlighting how his massive failures have sent food prices soaring and a record number of Canadians to food banks.
On Monday, Feed Ontario released their Hunger Report, confirming what people are feeling from their empty stomachs: Canadians cannot afford the cost of Carney. The climbing price of groceries drove 8.7 million individual food bank visits in Ontario, an increase of 13 per cent from last year.
Unfortunately, it’s expected to get worse. Also released this week, Canada’s Food Price Report 2026 confirmed that food prices are expected to increase even more next year, costing Canadian families almost $1,000 more per year just on food. Food prices are at record highs, rising to $338 for a family of four every single week next year. It also found that 86 per cent of Canadians are cutting back on meat because of the soaring cost of beef, chicken and pork – a rare trifecta of rising prices.
Canadian workers received their own tragic news as Algoma Steel laid off one-third of the workforce in Sault Ste. Marie. Conservatives requested an emergency debate after Carney failed to protect Canadian jobs and “negotiate a win,” but the speaker rejected the request.
Carney’s failure to get a deal by his July 21st deadline was also felt in British Columbia, as Crofton Paper Mill informed workers that it would be closed permanently, leading to 375 job losses. Conservative MPs from Vancouver Island called on Carney to start caring and end a decade of diplomatic failures for our lumber industry.
Failing to get his promised deal isn’t the only promise Carney broke. The Parliamentary Budget Office reported this week that the Liberals’ flagship homebuilding bureaucracy will add just 5,200 homes per year. That’s wildly short of his promised target of 500,000 new homes annually.
Conservatives also delivered solutions to the Liberals’ wild shortcomings on immigration, with the Hon. Michelle Rempel Garner, Conservative Shadow Minister for Immigration, demanding the Liberals restore in-person citizenship ceremonies as part of the suite of policies to fix the broken immigration system.
Rempel Garner also proposed an additional amendment to Bill C-12, which would ensure that the Liberals cannot use extraordinary powers in Part 7 to change, extend, or cancel visas or permanent resident cards in order to mass-extend temporary work visas.
Conservatives were also encouraged to see MP Frank Caputo’s, Conservative Shadow Minister for Public Safety, Bill C-225 to strengthen the legal response to Intimate Partner Violence, also known as “Bailey’s Law,” unanimously pass second reading.
Meanwhile, MP Andrew Lawton published an op-ed holding the Liberals to account on their unnecessary war on religious freedom with Bill C-9, defending Canada’s faithful and upholding the right to read and share sacred texts.
This week, Canadians were forced to pay for the cost of Carney every day with soaring food prices and food bank visits, collapsing housing promises, and shuttering mill and steel plants, laying off Canadian workers. Every day, Conservatives continued to stand up for an affordable life with good-paying jobs, and bring forward real plans to restore safe streets and strong borders.