Funny how the province with the highest taxes has less food insecurity than the province with lower taxes.
I wonder if it has anything to do with conservative vs progressive values? 🤔
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2025
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Québécois : Les Anglais non conforme con valores Canadiens.
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Nova Scotia has the highest taxes. Still a shit job with food security.
Wait really? Hold on lemme check...
Edit: I found this page which seems to show that Québec has the highest income tax.
Oh they do just squeak past. Besides the point. Taxes do not correlate to food security obviously. As Nova Scotia has one of the highest tax rates in the country and has shit food security and massive problems with senior and child food insecurity. Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, new Brunswick...all terrible problems yet some of the highest personal taxt rates. Very comparable to Quebec.
The solution is obvious: more oil from the tarsands. Just a bit more oil and we'll all be rich, promise!
Alternative solution: oil is high in calories, so just clean the sand out and eat that.
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As an Ontarian I'd like to say that QC is the best of Canada. 👏
Quebec has a lot of cheaper things such as maximum election contributions, car insurance, hydro and phone service.
It's one of the places in the world with the least socio-economic inequalities in general.
Just a reminder for those with means to do so, please donate to your local food banks or food pantries. Even $20 worth of food goes a long way. It's also worth bringing non-expired, non-perishables to your local food pantry as a spring cleaning!
I have a feeling that donating money might be more useful since they likely can purchase food at discounts, whereas we're paying Loblaw's full profit margins when we buy retail.
You can also pay more to our farmers if you buy it directly from them at the weekly markets.
I go to my local weekly farmer's market and I can't tell what's come from their farm and what's from the Toronto Food Terminal. That's a genuine problem for me, trying to ID who's real and who's a Loblaw wannabe. 🥲
As a Quebecker, I find the percentage 13.8% of households with food insecurity unacceptable in and of itself.
The 2 most right wing provinces Alberta and Saskatchewan are of course doing really poorly...
The Irvings will screwed over New Brunswick.
I wonder why Newfoundland and Labrador are struggling so much?
BC is the second lowest food prevalence.
If I had to guess for NFLD, it's likely it's distance from everything. Costs to ship foods, plus I don't know what sort of ability there is to grow their own food there, isn't most of the province just rock? Maybe someone from there would know that better but otherwise I think just fuel and shipping costs are enough.