Existence is Very Expensive | Canadians Can’t Keep Up Anymore

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]Can someone please explain to me why it's so expensive?

[00:00:07]>> When affordability turns into a rebate, that's policy failure.

[00:00:14]>> Canadian grocery stores are robbing Canadian customers, and I think we should all be more upset about it.

[00:00:20]>> Toronto people who have kids, how are you guys managing it?

[00:00:24]>> 6:29.

[00:00:26]Can you believe it?

[00:00:28]29.

[00:00:36]>> Price of groceries in Canada are atrocious. Um, atrocious.

[00:00:42]>> $100 used to fill an entire grocery cart in Canada. Now, it barely fills one bag.

[00:00:48]And families across this country are starting to break under the pressure.

[00:00:52]People are skipping meals. Parents are pretending they already ate so their kids can have enough food. Middle-class Canadians, people who did everything right, are now standing in grocery aisles calculating every dollar like survival depends on it. And honestly, it does. The scary part is this isn't luxury spending anymore. This is food.

[00:01:12]Eggs, bread, milk, meat, basic things families need just to live. So, why does it feel like no matter how hard Canadians work, groceries keep taking more and more of their paycheck?

[00:01:26]Tonight, we're talking about the food inflation crisis destroying Canadian families. Why life suddenly feels unaffordable and how millions of Canadians are quietly drowning just trying to feed their household.

[00:01:39]Oh my god, look at this. Okay, guys, I have a plan. I'm going to work hard. I'm going to save some money. And one day I going to buy myself 393 ml of tomato sauce smoothie in IGA for629.

[00:01:55]Can you believe it? 629.

[00:01:58]What the hell buy this?

[00:02:01]>> Can someone please explain to me why it's so expensive to grocery shop?

[00:02:12]I'm averaging about $250 a week. Family of four. I don't meal plan, so grocery shopping is sporadic and chaotic and anxietyridden.

[00:02:23]But in all honesty, what are we paying a week on average and I'm in Nova Scotia, Canada. Really interested. Yeah. When affordability turns into a rebate, that's policy failure. This is policy failure. Very loud and clear. It means that this is an emergency. Something's not working. People can't afford food.

[00:02:49]So, what do they do? They give people more money. Where's the money coming from? You and me. It's repackaged. We're going to talk about affordability in Canada and this shit show that happened today.

[00:03:01]>> Today, we're announcing that our government is launching the new Canada's groceries and essentials benefit. No one should be celebrating this because it's a shift from the structural affordability that this party promised us to redistributive optics.

[00:03:16]>> This will deliver hundreds of dollars more into the bank accounts of more than 12 million Canadians.

[00:03:24]>> This is called cash recycling and it's nothing new. This is what the Liberals do. That's why we created the new grocery rebate, which will allow an eligible couple with two children to receive up to $467.

[00:03:40]This is a measure that will help make life more affordable for around 11 million individuals and families.

[00:03:46]>> It's not the price of groceries that that's the problem. It's the affordability.

[00:03:51]Right now, a family of four receives about $1,100 a year with the existing GST credit.

[00:03:59]With a new Canada Groceries and Essentials benefit, that same family will receive up to $1,890 this year and about $1,400 a year for each of the next four years. I thought the whole point was to get the price of the food down. And now you're just giving Canada's poorest money, more money to be able to afford what's too expensive. Instead of committing to actions that will result in in the price of food going down, they're just offsetting the pain with some damage control, which is costing nongst getting Canadians uh money.

[00:04:44]>> Starting this year, we're taking the existing GST credit amount and raising it by 25% for 5 years. The state in this scenario is not creating any sort of abundance.

[00:04:57]That's how it's framed. Look at the background. Look at the background in this video. It's in a grocery store.

[00:05:03]Abundant and fruity and fresh. And there's food. There's food. But they're actually just reallocating scarcity.

[00:05:12]That is what they are doing. And they've been doing that the entire time. And when I say the entire time, I mean like for a decade. High earners get squeezed for taxes.

[00:05:24]Low earners get checks. And the problem still isn't solved. It's damage control.

[00:05:32]This is damage control because they don't know what the fuck they're doing.

[00:05:36]I thought this was the party of making life more affordable and now they're just giving handouts to deal with the unaffordability of of this country. It makes zero sense. You know what this screams to me? That our affordability crisis in Canada is permanent. This is exactly what they want. They want you to be broke. They want you to be squeezed.

[00:05:58]They want you to be taxed. They want you to be poor because taking these handouts manages the problem. It manages the issue for a little bit. It lets them continue to operate how they've been operating, but it's going to implode.

[00:06:13]So, I don't know. I think it might be early election time. I think maybe that's why this is happening, but we'll save that for another day. Toronto people who have kids, how are you guys managing it? Like, how are you really managing your expenses, your grocery? I just went grocery shopping and I couldn't buy a chicken because it was $5 above my budget. So, instead, I ended up with this tofu.

[00:06:40]I don't even like tofu and it's just me paying for myself. So, I'm really curious like how are you guys feeding multiple people? Like, is there a secret WhatsApp group that we were not invited to? Now, my dinner is tofu, which I feel like I'm just going to have to pretend is chicken. I just don't know what to do. like I don't know how to make my budget or which magical shop do I go to so it fits in my budget. Any advice, please? I apologize ahead of time for the cursing, but sweet fucking Jesus.

[00:07:16]These are about to go in the oven. This is cabbage rolls. All right. 1 2 maybe 3 4 5 6. Okay. Can you motherfucking believe the price of these things? $20.80.

[00:07:33]and 80 cents. Now, we got these on discount because they were um close to their uh whatchamacallit date as before, but still that's fucking crazy. That's not $20 worth of fucking product. Not by a long shot.

[00:07:54]Shame.

[00:07:56]Shame.

[00:07:58]One conspiracy I have that I would love for somebody to prove me wrong is that I really believe that going to the grocery store has become just as expensive as eating out every single night because that used to be the message. Oh, you got to save money. You got to go to the grocery store. Have you been to the grocery store? As soon as you walk in there, you've spent $87. There is no savings to be had. And I really feel like they've designed it.

[00:08:18]>> See, I'm not even joking anymore.

[00:08:20]Grocery shopping in Canada is becoming scary. I went to the shop, spent a reasonable amount of money, and there's still nothing in my house. I enter the store saying, "Let me just buy some things." Small things. Small things for where? Eggs. Expensive. Chicken. Uncle expensive. Fruits. Please don't touch that one unless you're emotionally ready. And the worst part, uncle. When you have children, groceries disappear like spiritual warfare. You buy snacks today. By the next day, everything has vanished. Sometimes after grocery shopping, I just sit in my car quietly because adulting in this Canada is not for the week. If you're not intentional here, your money will disappear very fast. I've learned how to now meal plan better, track my spending, I buy in bulk when possible, and I reduce random spending because groceries alone in this country can destroy somebody's finances.

[00:09:05]If you want the grocery budget template checklist I use, comment groceries and I'll send it to you. Canadian grocery stores are robbing Canadian customers, and I think we should all be more upset about it. A CBC investigation found that Loblaws and Soies, Canada's two major grocery stores are overcharging for the price of meat because they include the price of packaging in the total cost, which they are not allowed to do due to standards set by the Canadian Food Agency. And if you didn't know, Loblas and Soies own all of the following grocery stores. So they hold a monopoly on groceries. As you can see in the article, under federal regulations, food prices must exclude the weight of packaging. Now, when the weight of packaging is factored into the cost, consumers end up being charged between two to 16% more than they should on their food, which might only be a couple dollars, but in this economy, we need all our dollars. And you might wonder, well, what is the government doing about this? Nothing. They're sending out warnings. These grocerers need hefty fines. Fines that'll make them realize they can't play with consumers money.

[00:10:13]And this tyrant right here, he's not for the city-run grocery stores. You might wonder why. H. That man's family owns a printing company. Who do they print for?

[00:10:26]Loblas, Metro, and Soies. It's all connected. I have two solutions to this problem. One, these grocerers need to be fined. The second solution, I can't say it on the internet, but if you know, you know.

[00:10:40]>> I just nipped off to my local Tesco Express across the street there, and I realized when I said that that sounded very British, but we move forward. And I left spending only £8. You could never in Canada. Let's see what I got for £8.

[00:10:54]First off, I got a coffee. This was like £3. This was the most expensive thing.

[00:10:59]And then I got lettuce. I think this was like 110.

[00:11:05]insane. Like, you can't get anything anything under or even around a pound in Canada. It's absolutely impossible. I also got Feta. This was two pound. In Canada, this would be $12. That's like quadruple the amount even with the exchange. And then last but not least, I got toilet paper. This was £2. I know it's only four rolls, but this would probably be $7 in Canada. Something crazy like that. Like I just I don't understand Canadian grocery prices and I'm so thankful to be doing my shopping in the UK.

[00:11:39]>> Hey friends, excuse the sweaty look.

[00:11:42]Just finished at the gym. So, uh, every piece of me is wet. Um, snow's back again. What a surprise. It was 21° on Tuesday. It's now minus 1. That's Celsius for my American friends. Now, Victoria's thoughts of the day. Just been to the supermarket to Metro, local Canadian store. And uh since when do three sweet potatoes cost $8.19?

[00:12:08]$8.19 for three sweet potatoes.

[00:12:11]My tomatoes, which are the tomatoes on the vine loose sold. $6.15 for six.

[00:12:19]Outrageous.

[00:12:20]Baby spinach $4.88 for a very small box.

[00:12:24]Now I do normally go to Costco. It's a bit cheaper, but I just kind of had a chance this week. Been to the gym four days in a row with my trainer, Hamemed.

[00:12:32]Amazing guy. Now, here's the real kicker. I do like my organic products.

[00:12:37]Yes, I'm bougie. Yes, I'm old. My milk for three bags. Yes, we get it in bags in Canada. $11.79.

[00:12:45]$11.79.

[00:12:47]Now, I'm really fortunate. How are you all coping out there? What's the grocery prices like in the US and the UK? How's it going? Stay strong.

[00:12:58]So, for all the haters out there for um Gateway Meat Market, I went there today just to pick up some beef cuz I like their beef. It's actually pretty good. I mean, these pretty big roasts here. I picked two of these up, you know, 23 $24 each. I got a whole chicken here.

[00:13:17]$10 for that chicken. And I got a pack of four peppers. So those peppers are $4.97 which is average price on normal times over the last four years. Not $7 like you see in the superto. So for the price this is what this is what we got here is it came to $63 for all of that.

[00:13:39]Now we're going to compare it to superstore. So the threeack of peppers is $550 and that's the flyer feature.

[00:13:50]So let's go. So these are the two closest price points I can find. For $25 you get 712 kg and for $28 you get.81 or 804 kg. So you can see the difference in the size that they're smaller than my hand. The ones I bought at Gateway Meat Market are double the size of this for the same price. So all you people saying Gateway is really expensive. You might as well just shop at Supertore. You might as well shop at Soies anyways, you're all full of shit. You don't know what you're talking about. And you got to make sure you understand what you're talking about because I'm trying to give advice to people so they don't get ripped off at the grocery store and you're just talking shit out your ass that you think you know what you're talking about. Their chickens here are 14 to $17 for a chicken. I bought mine for $10. So $63 is what I paid for my stuff. If I was to buy the exact same size of food here, I would be paying over $100 for that. So you do the math, folks. Be real. Stop acting like you know more and saying shit that doesn't mean anything when I'm trying to help people find a better spot to purchase their products at and not get ripped off by places like these stupid corporate conglomerates that steal your money, rip you off, and don't care about you at all. At least Gateway is trying to be reasonable with the pricing. Even though beef is up in price, they're still trying to be reasonable. So be real, people. Let me know what you think.

[00:15:29]Gateway is way better. Go to Gateway.

[00:15:31]Stay out of supertore. Stay out of Soies. Get your local.

[00:15:37]Support Nova Scotia. Let's go people. Be real.

[00:15:42]At some point, this stopped being about groceries. This became about survival.

[00:15:46]Because when ordinary families start feeling stressed every single time they walk into a grocery store, something is seriously wrong with the country.

[00:15:55]Canadians used to believe that if you worked hard, paid your bills, and lived responsibly, you'd at least be able to afford a decent life. Not luxury, not mansions, not vacations every month, just stability.

[00:16:08]But now, people are working full-time and still struggling to buy basic food.

[00:16:13]That's the part nobody can ignore anymore. And what makes this even more frustrating is how fast everything changed. A few years ago, families could grocery shop without anxiety. People weren't checking bank accounts before buying milk. Parents weren't terrified every time prices went up again. But today, everything feels heavier. Food prices rise, rent rises, bills rise, stress rises. Yet, wages never seem to catch up. And you can feel what this pressure is doing to people emotionally, too. Families are more exhausted, more anxious, more angry. People feel trapped. Not because Canadians became lazy, but because life became unbelievably expensive in a very short amount of time. And the saddest part, a lot of Canadians feel like nobody in charge truly understands what ordinary people are going through. That's why conversations like this matter, because millions of Canadians are quietly feeling the exact same pressure, even if nobody around them talks about it openly. So, I want to ask you something honestly. When was the last time grocery shopping actually felt affordable to you? What food item shocked you the most recently? And do you think life in Canada is getting better or slowly becoming impossible for ordinary families? Let me know down below. And if this video connected with how you've been feeling lately, subscribe because more Canadians are finally starting to speak honestly about what life in this country really feels like right now.