Discussion · Government Orders
Kelly McCauley Conservative
“The grocery rebate leaves out working families. A couple with kids making barely more than minimum wage earns too much to get it. Most of the money goes to single people without children instead. I want my colleague to comment on why the government made that choice.”
“Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague from Winnipeg West; we share the “west” part of our ridings. I appreciate the member’s speech and I honestly believe that he means well, he cares for people and he is not out here pushing the government’s slogans. One of the issues he brought up was the grocery rebate. The way it is formulated, if we have a husband and wife, a mother and father, or two adults with up to four kids earning pennies above minimum wage in Manitoba, they would be earning too much and would not receive the grocery rebate. The way the government has it set up pushes most of the rebate into the hands of single earners, single families without children. Can my colleague comment on that being the government’s priority, not helping low-income families, which is the way the program is set up?”
Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague from Winnipeg West; we share the “west” part of our ridings. I appreciate the member’s speech and I honestly believe that he means well, he cares for people and he is not out here pushing the government’s slogans. One of the issues he brought up was the grocery rebate. The way it is formulated, if we have a husband and wife, a mother and father, or two adults with up to four kids earning pennies above minimum wage in Manitoba, they would be earning too much and would not receive the grocery rebate. The way the government has it set up pushes most of the rebate into the hands of single earners, single families without children. Can my colleague comment on that being the government’s priority, not helping low-income families, which is the way the program is set up?