Ontario NDP Chief Marit Stiles is pledging to assist offset rising meals costs with a month-to-month grocery rebate for decrease and middle-income households.
Ontario NDP Chief Marit Stiles is pledging to assist offset rising meals costs with a month-to-month grocery rebate for decrease and middle-income households.
Stiles stated the rebate program would assist as much as 4 million households and people and will present a household of 4 with as much as $122 every month.
“That is over $1,400 per yr,” Stiles stated at a marketing campaign cease in Toronto on Saturday.
“What I hear from individuals as I am criss-crossing Ontario is that everyone is fed up with paying an excessive amount of for fundamentals like bread, rice and greens,” she stated.
The tax-free rebate quantity can be based mostly on how a lot the price of grocery staples has elevated during the last a number of years and tied to the recipients’ annual earnings and family measurement.
The NDP stated households and people with a web earnings of as much as $65,000 would get the total credit score, and the rebate would lower for households incomes between $65,000 and $100,000.
The celebration stated this system would price about $409 million monthly.
If her celebration types authorities, Stiles stated it might additionally introduce measures to stop co-ordinated worth hikes amongst Ontario grocers and set up a shopper safety watchdog.
In the meantime, the Liberal celebration made a pledge Saturday to nominate a particular investigator to look into varied strikes by Progressive Conservative Chief Doug Ford’s authorities, together with the closure of the Ontario Science Centre and the now-reversed plan to develop land within the protected Greenbelt.
Liberal Chief Bonnie Crombie had made an identical promise final June, lengthy earlier than Ford known as the Feb. 27 snap election.
Ford is campaigning within the Niagara and Hamilton areas on Saturday and is ready to make an announcement in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Inexperienced Social gathering Chief Mike Schreiner, in the meantime, is making a number of stops in Ontario’s cottage nation, together with in Kearney and Huntsville.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Feb. 8, 2025.
Sonja Puzic, The Canadian Press
