With the parliamentary clock ticking down and the government yet to pass their 'affordable housing and groceries' bill—the first piece of federal legislation tabled in the fall sitting—the NDP have agreed to help the Liberals advance Bill C-56 in exchange for a series of amendments inspired by a similar bill from Leader Jagmeet Singh, CTV News has learned.

With the parliamentary clock ticking down and the government yet to pass their ‘affordable housing and groceries’ bill—the first piece of federal legislation tabled in the fall sitting—the NDP have agreed to help the Liberals advance Bill C-56 in exchange for a series of amendments inspired by a similar bill from Leader Jagmeet Singh, CTV News has learned.

  • frostbiker@lemmy.ca
    6·
    1 year ago

    IMO, this money should go directly back to consumers

    It nearly does. The government collects the fines, which reduces public deficit, which allows the government to either lower taxes or spend more relative to what it would do otherise, which means money ends in the pockets of citizens either way.

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
      2·
      1 year ago

      That may be true, but consumers who overspent on food, and are in this present day struggling, should get the money back in cash.

      I’ve never had a tax break in all the years that I’ve been robbed by grocery stores.

      In other words, we haven’t been collecting nearly as much as what’s been taken from us.