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.
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And when you see the amount of money being spent on these in-flight meals,
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when you're talking about $200,000 for three flights,
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I mean, that kind of money is going to jump out.
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Look, it's $834 on orange juice for a single flight,
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like I don't even think chocolate mousse is very expensive so $3,800 of it is like you might as well
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bathe in a tub but to your point it's exactly you know it's exactly at the time where Canadians are
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tightening their belts we have the highest food inflation in in all of the G7 grocery prices
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another thousand dollars for a per year for for for a family of of four so at a time when Canadians
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are tightening this belt we think that Prime Minister should just be doing the same thing
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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.
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They're not on my menu, so it's hard for me to understand.
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And I think it's hard for every Canadian to understand that a time of an economic crunch,
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at a time where Carney is the only G20 leader that has put this country into a recession,
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he's driven the economy into decline three out of four of the last quarters.
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At that kind of moment in our present day experience
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it doesn't smell good, and it shouldn't be happening.