Western Standard - November 10, 2026


Can You Judge Food Bank Need by the Car Outside？

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572

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00:00:00.000 but at any rate if you've got enough to eat be glad maybe you shared around a bit what do you
00:00:06.400 say oh no i 100 agree with that my problem with that is what i've seen i don't know if you guys
00:00:10.640 have seen this but if you go by drive by sometimes a food bank and you take a look at the part comes
00:00:14.320 into the next thing you see what the cars are in there and you're going hmm really was i've seen
00:00:20.640 i've seen mercedes audi's you name it i'm sitting there going and there's also been well there's
00:00:26.560 There's piles of videos of these, I guess you could say people that have just come to Canada that are basically scamming food banks.
00:00:31.820 There's like on YouTube and whatnot constantly, which is very odd to me.
00:00:34.720 I was about to say, to be a little more politically incorrect, it's not just the vehicles, but the people in general. 1.00
00:00:38.820 Now, there's new Canadians come in, and it's hard to get your feet under you. 0.99
00:00:41.780 And some of them are going to be a little tight and struggling, and that's what the food bank is for. 0.99
00:00:46.500 But as you've said, some of them are pulling up into some six-figure vehicles.
00:00:51.100 This gets into a bigger discussion about low-trust societies, because that's the truth of it.
00:00:54.520 It's just a different cultural thing.
00:00:55.920 Well, if you're going to leave it out there, I'm going to take it, you know, and food banks, food banks have to have a no question asked policy.
00:01:02.520 They really do.
00:01:03.100 I mean, you don't know how quickly somebody may have just landed on hard times and, you know, they're hungry today, not in three weeks from now after a means test and a bunch of things to see if they're qualified.
00:01:14.180 So they'll give the benefit of the doubt to the applicant.
00:01:17.620 But that's part of the overuse.
00:01:19.040 Unfortunately, some people are really abusing that system.
00:01:21.240 How do you deal with it?
00:01:22.080 And I'm actually curious to see what donations are like for food banks now, if they've gone down or anything.
00:01:25.440 I haven't seen any numbers on that, anything about that, but yeah, I can just, yeah, because
00:01:29.160 like those videos are just gone viral online.
00:01:31.240 So people see that and maybe if they had donated to the food bank before they go, not now.
00:01:36.200 Well, that's it.
00:01:36.860 I mean, we get upset.
00:01:38.200 I don't, you know, food banks are, I think a good cause that they're not money in pocket
00:01:41.800 sort of things and so on.
00:01:43.020 They're, there's something to feed somebody, but none of us want to think that they're
00:01:45.780 being abused.
00:01:47.620 No, you know, and it is awkward because to your point about the expensive cars, I mean,
00:01:53.480 it is perfectly feasible in this province at this time.
00:01:58.880 For somebody to have a good job on the oil industry one day and have the big...
00:02:03.240 You're stuck in the lease.
00:02:04.480 I mean, you're still hungry.
00:02:07.100 You lose the job and all of a sudden the income stops.
00:02:10.660 The severance runs out.
00:02:12.220 You still have the nice house.
00:02:13.420 You still have the nice car.
00:02:15.000 You have no money to buy food.
00:02:17.100 Cash poor.
00:02:17.820 You're cash poor.
00:02:19.080 Yes, you could sell the car, I suppose.
00:02:20.760 But, I mean, is that our first reaction to somebody who just needs a handover for a few months?