Juno News - December 04, 2021The elites are laughing about inflation
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Summary
People sneered at Erin O'Toole for taking a picture of a breakfast and showing how the items in that breakfast have been getting more and more expensive with inflation based on statistics. But now he's back, unapologetically, and he's doing it again with a graphic showing the cost of living is indeed going up.
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something painfully elitist happened in canadian politics the other week when erin o'toole posted
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a picture of a breakfast and showed how the items in that breakfast well they have been getting
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more and more expensive with inflation based on statistics canada data a lot of people bizarrely
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laughed at erin o'toole for doing that incredibly elitist of them but now he's back he's back
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unapologetically and he's doing it again with a graphic showing a barbecue and showing how the
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items in that barbecue when it comes to the meat you're putting on the grill or the cost of propane
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they are going up even more than the items in that breakfast picture good on erin o'toole for coming
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back and doing a second round of this because while folks out there who don't have to worry about paying
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the bills they're not too concerned about uh stretching things because they're comfortable
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they may sneer and laugh at these graphics well regular folks they're talking about this every
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day they're doing comparison shopping they're looking around and saying man prices are going up
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i gotta try and find a better deal because this is really hitting my wallet hard it's making
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things difficult for me to feed my family why were people sneering at this in the first place
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well this breakfast that erin o'toole put a picture of it was a pretty hearty breakfast it was the sort of
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thing that really you'd only get served at a diner or if you're staying at a hotel it's what they would
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serve to you for the breakfast in the morning but it's not the sort of breakfast that most people
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eat every day if you did it's probably not too healthy to eat that breakfast every day it's going
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to clog your arteries i mean all the bacon and fried eggs and stuff every morning but that wasn't the
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point the point was that i think erin o'toole wanted to show a whole variety of breakfast items and
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just to show how the cost of living is indeed going up now instead of just acknowledging that
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acknowledging that's probably why he put the image out people looked for every opportunity they
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could to undermine it to score points against the conservatives okay fine that's politics that's
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what you do but boy did they come across looking incredibly out of touch like they were basically
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sneering at the realities that regular canadians are facing every day there are some people who
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have done actually really well the past couple years either because they have these these guaranteed
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salaries that are guaranteed to rise somewhat equivalent to inflation they made made off like bandits
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with the stock market i don't know but there's a lot of people who are also not in that situation
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and they're not faring so well and it's a really bad look for those people who want to take an elitist
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approach to laughing at those basic concerns so good on erin o'toole for saying you mocked me for doing
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this once well guess what it matters it's important i'm doing it again