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Question period focused on the cost of living, particularly rising food prices. Conservative members cited a projected 10% increase in the cost of Thanksgiving dinner, a 30% rise in grocery prices since 2021, recent job losses, and pressure on local food banks — including one in Oshawa capping the number of households it serves — and asked the government to acknowledge an affordability crisis and adopt their measures, such as cutting fuel taxes. Liberal members responded by pointing to their affordability measures, including the groceries and essentials benefit recently paid to tens of thousands of households, the permanent national school food program, the child benefit, rent declines they said had lasted 24 consecutive months, and housing investments such as $188 million for over 500 homes in Oshawa. One Liberal also cited the Canada Growth Fund’s investment in the Darlington nuclear project as supporting local jobs, which the local Conservative member disputed in her follow-up.Written by AI from the debate. Updated .

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