George Murphy is the NDP member of the provincial legislature best known for pushing the government gas price gouging scheme that forces consumers to pay prices for gasoline that benefits the provincial government and the gasoline retailers.
Murphy says he is on the side of consumers.
Now Murphy thinks that a jump in food prices is caused by ferry rates:
According to Voice of the Cabinet Minister:
The MHA for St. John's East says he's concerned about the latest inflation numbers from Statistics Canada, and says those numbers are linked to Marine Atlantic's rate hike. According to Stats Can consumer prices in January are up by 2.5 per cent in metro compared to last year. Murphy says the hike of 4.9 per cent in food prices can be directly traced to the four per cent increase in Marine Atlantic ferry rates.
He says it's time for the federal government to step in and keep Marine Atlantic rates low and stable so that the people aren't gouged at the grocery store.
A small increase in the cost of sailing on a ship for a few miles caused food prices to rise dramatically.
Not the fact that the food comes from places like California on the other end of the friggin’ continent, and is brought here in trucks that burn diesel fuel, the price for which is pretty high these days.
And the solution to that problem is for the federal government to pour tax dollars into lowering those evil ferry rates.
Murphy likes spending federal tax dollars to help people.
He also wants the federal government to support development of Muskrat Falls.
That’s the Newfoundland Tory/Dipper scheme to force the taxpayers of Murphy’s district to pay full cost plus profit for electricity so that the private sector company that sells electricity to people in Nova Scotia can get the juice for free.
Murphy likes spending public money to help people.
You just gotta know that those people Murphy winds up helping aren’t consumers in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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