Juno News - June 08, 2026


MP Melissa Lantsman and Marc Patrone react to reports of lavish government in-flight spending

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In this episode of the podcast, we discuss the growing cost of in-flight meals, and why the Prime Minister should be doing the same thing. We also talk about the impact of food inflation on the economy, and whether or not the government should have been doing more to fight it.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 And when you see the amount of money being spent on these in-flight meals,
00:00:04.960 when you're talking about $200,000 for three flights,
00:00:09.160 I mean, that kind of money is going to jump out.
00:00:13.320 It's going to make people's hair curl
00:00:15.960 because they themselves have been suffering.
00:00:19.260 No doubt.
00:00:20.820 Look, it's $834 on orange juice for a single flight,
00:00:25.840 $3,800 on chocolate mousse.
00:00:28.300 like I don't even think chocolate mousse is very expensive so $3,800 of it is like you might as well 0.99
00:00:34.300 bathe in a tub but to your point it's exactly you know it's exactly at the time where Canadians are
00:00:40.860 tightening their belts we have the highest food inflation in in all of the G7 grocery prices
00:00:46.300 another thousand dollars for a per year for for for a family of of four so at a time when Canadians
00:00:53.020 are tightening this belt we think that Prime Minister should just be doing the same thing
00:00:56.940 3,400, you know, we've got stories of luxury buttercups, or luxury butter, and I don't even know what kind of buttercups are.
00:01:07.640 They're not on my menu, so it's hard for me to understand.
00:01:10.680 And I think it's hard for every Canadian to understand that a time of an economic crunch,
00:01:15.620 at a time where Carney is the only G20 leader that has put this country into a recession,
00:01:20.540 he's driven the economy into decline three out of four of the last quarters.
00:01:24.720 and new data says that it's getting worse.
00:01:27.400 At that kind of moment in our present day experience
00:01:32.660 as Canadians, it doesn't look good,
00:01:35.280 it doesn't smell good, and it shouldn't be happening.