TRUDEAU’S GROCERY GAMBIT: PM Blames ‘Obstructionist’ Conservatives for Food Price Crisis… But He’s Been in Charge for NINE Years

OTTAWA – Justin Trudeau is pointing fingers at the opposition for Canada’s grocery bill catastrophe.

The Prime Minister claims Conservative “obstructionism” over the past decade weakened the loonie and sent food prices soaring.

There’s just one tiny problem. Liberals have held power for nine of those ten years.

INFLATION NATION: Canada Tops G7 in Food Costs

Fresh Statistics Canada data confirms what families already know.

Canada leads the entire G7 in food inflation.

Grocery prices have exploded 25% since Trudeau took office in 2015.

Basics now consume nearly 30% of household income for the poorest Canadians.

Yet the PM insists his policies aren’t to blame.

THE BLAME GAME

“Conservative economic obstruction held us back,” Trudeau declared Tuesday.

His office circulated a memo highlighting decade-old votes they say damaged investor confidence.

But the opposition wasn’t having it.

“This is desperate gaslighting,” slammed Conservative finance critic Jasraj Singh Hallan.

“They’ve controlled the purse strings for nine years. Own it.”

Even Liberal insiders are privately cringing.

“It’s not our finest hour,” admitted one senior party strategist.

HOMEGROWN HEADACHES

Grocery executives tell a different story.

“Carbon taxes, supply management rigidities, and regulatory kill zones are strangling us,” said one supermarket chain president who requested anonymity.

Economists are scratching their heads at the PM’s logic.

“Blaming opposition parties for your own inflation record is… novel,” quipped University of Calgary professor Trevor Tombe.

The raw numbers are devastating.

Under Stephen Harper’s Conservatives: food inflation averaged 1.8% annually.

Under Trudeau’s Liberals: 3.5% and accelerating.

FAMILIES PAYING THE PRICE

Toronto mother Jennifer Walsh isn’t interested in political finger-pointing.

“My grocery bill was $120 a week in 2015,” she said. “Now it’s $280. Who’s been Prime Minister?”

Food bank usage has tripled in major cities.

And the loonie? It’s down 15% against the US dollar since 2015.

Most of that slide happened after the Liberals won their first majority.

ELECTION LOOMS

Trudeau’s office tripled down Wednesday.

More attacks on the Conservative record are coming, sources confirm.

The strategy is clear: deflect economic anger onto the old guard.

But voters have memories. And receipts.

Those receipts tell a story no press release can rewrite.

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