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The 2023 federal budget, in 23 minutes

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The GST Rebate and Food Inflation

Food inflation is really high food purchases from stores went up 10.6% year over year in February and regular inflation is only at 5.2%. This rebate is only a few hundred dollars as you said Rob How much of a difference will this money actually make for people? Well, you know what I figure for that family of four if they have older kids probably that's two weeks grocery shopping So that's something But you know the government has to walk a fine line because if they were to deliver a bigger block of financial relief to families They would be accused of stoking inflation putting more money into the system. The problem with our system That was there's too much spending so here I think

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