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 mentioned 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 mentioned 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 mentioned.
The tax-free rebate quantity could be based mostly on how a lot the price of grocery staples has elevated over the past a number of years and tied to the recipients’ annual revenue and family measurement.
The NDP mentioned households and people with a internet revenue of as much as $65,000 would get the complete credit score, and the rebate would lower for households incomes between $65,000 and $100,000.
The social gathering mentioned this system would price about $409 million per 30 days.
If her social gathering varieties authorities, Stiles mentioned it could additionally introduce measures to stop co-ordinated worth hikes amongst Ontario grocers and set up a client safety watchdog.
In the meantime, the Liberal social gathering made a pledge Saturday to nominate a particular investigator to look into numerous 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 the same promise final June, lengthy earlier than Ford referred to 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 Celebration 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 printed Feb. 8, 2025.
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