Poll suggests Tory affordability message hits mark
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OTTAWA – A new poll suggests nearly half of Canadians are living paycheque to paycheque as the cost of living crisis continues to squeeze household budgets, and young people are more likely to s...
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Governments mandating lower prices when taxes are raised won’t go well either. They’ll simply lower the quality of the goods and the same price

Absolutely agree. “Shrinkflation” is already a real problem used by many companies to give the appearance of not raising prices.

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Also ‘skimpflation’ - like reducing the proportion of expensive ingredients or reducing the quality of ingredients

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