NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh on food prices and allegations against India | Canadian politics

I just want to start off by responding to minister Sean Fine’s comments about stabilizing grocery prices I think his comments were frankly ridiculous first of all we shouldn’t be stabilizing we should be lowering prices to just allow Market forces to do it what what was the

Point of the meeting then what was the outcome of the meeting if he doesn’t have a plan that the government’s not going to force them that they’re going to do it on their own it sounds like a lot of nothing to me and at a time when Canadians have been faced with high

Grocery prices for almost two years that is a that is a complete failure of leadership what we need to do is bring in stronger laws now to stop the price gouging the price fixing to stop mergers which are driving up the cost of goods we need to tackle the problems that are

In the system right now and make sure Canadians can afford their groceries that’s what my bill will do and we’re encouraging the government to move forth concrete legislation concrete steps to lower the cost of groceries and the second thing I want to touch on is that given yesterday’s very very serious allegations

Shocking allegations that continue to have reverberations across the country I’ve written directly to the to the commissioner for the public inquiry that given these allegations there’s no doubt now that India should be included in the public inquiry and that any and all forms of interference need to be investigated thoroughly so that

Canadians are assured that those steps have been taken and I just want to say that in French and then I’ll take your questions um and the final pieces that Canadians also need to know that they’re being protected and safe given that there’s real credible threats against their lives Uh earlier today that he wants more facts he wants more evidence from the government about these credible allegations do you also want that evidence or do you trust what the government is telling you right now I think the next stage that’s going to happen is going to be an investigation

Where the Canadian justice system will evaluate the weight of the evidence and a public inquiry which will independently assess the weight of the intelligence right now we’re faced with very serious allegations and there are steps that need to happen in front of us is Fusion please

Can you please you had this meeting with the Prime Minister yesterday did he clarify for you what what the government means when it says stabilize prices and can you please just expand a little bit on what you said are ridiculous comments for minister of Champaign what is ridiculous about what he’s saying the

Fact that after almost two years of inflation for groceries exceeding General inflation the Liberals response is to meet with the CEOs to ask them nicely to stabilize prices and then he’s saying that they’ll do it on their own that is ridiculous given the fact that Canadians have been

Paying thousands of dollars more in groceries because of high inflation in grocery prices when we’ve got a report from the competition Bureau that makes it very clear that there is an increase in their margins that they are making record profits and that there are steps that we can take to strengthen the

Competition Bureau that could allow for lower prices for Canadians and so letting the people that have exploited inflation and jacked up the prices of people’s food figure out on their own as a response to almost two years of record grocery inflation is ridiculous Pacific premises Andrea considerations Oklahoma National Intelligence agencies in this

Country handled the threat that we heard about yesterday what I’m deeply concerned about is that amongst many members of the sick community they’re they’re folks that have been warned about credible threats against their lives and that despite those threats being made aware they were not protected and there wasn’t a clear plan

Of protection that’s something that I’m deeply concerned about that giving someone awareness of or or a briefing on potential threats without having a clear plan to protect them is I think a failure and that’s something that’s really concerning there are people whose lives are at risk right now

And and they don’t know what’s going to happen that’s why I’m going to be asking that question directly to the Prime Minister what is the plan now given these serious allegations to protect Canadians who might also be at threat with violence here in Canada are you questioning their it’s efficacy

Or whatever my question is around the security or the protection of people that are receiving the information so people have received intelligence what’s the next step once you tell someone that there’s a real threat what is the next step to make sure that they’re protected that’s an area where I think the federal

Government has not actually done enough to keep people safe aware of these allegations and how are you made aware yesterday thanks so much Missy

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh questions the point of the federal government meeting with grocery CEOs and wants India to be included in the upcoming foreign interference inquiry.

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