"I returned the other day from a shopping expedition -- gas, groceries, pharmaceuticals -- with an empty wallet and a troubled mind.
Prices for everything had spiked almost overnight, it seemed, and in some cases had nearly doubled. What was formerly a $70 grocery bill was now $107. A standard $75 for a tank of gas now set me back $100.
A $30 bill for various pharmaceutical items now topped $40.
On the same day, we had our monthly heating oil delivery, a partial fill-up leaving us $500 poorer, not counting the Hydro One electricity bill of $140.
Prices in my overtaxed home province of Ontario were always stratospheric, with many people having to choose between heating their homes and stocking their larders, a condition called “energy poverty.
...Apart from a bevy of new taxes hitting doctors, farmers and small businesses, our pretty boy Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has, ostensibly to fight global warming, imposed an onerous carbon tax on the country, a tariff which has kicked in with a vengeance.
This explains in large part why I came home with an empty wallet -- prices reflect the new fiscal burden.”
Industry has fled the province to avoid the crushing tax burden..."
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