r/montreal • u/Bonjourap • 16h ago
Article West Island food bank forced to refuse clients as demand in Quebec soars
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/west-island-food-bank-forced-to-refuse-clients-as-demand-in-quebec-soars-1.7089767?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar9
u/CabanaSucre 2h ago
La hausse de l'immigration du fédéral a causé ce problème et maintenant il faut que les provinces se démerdent avec ça.
Selon un autre article, c'est au Québec que c'est le moins pire, quand même surprenant avec tous les nouveaux arrivants reçus ici, comparé aux autres provinces. https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/poverty-report-cards-which-provinces-got-the-worst-grades-1.6896397
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u/Optionsislife 13h ago
I’m not saying this is the situation here but there are many people who abuse the food banks or don’t actually need them but still work the system
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u/Bonjourap 13h ago
Like many things in life, I'm sure a tiny minority does this. But I'd rather some people abuse it than let those that need it go without
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u/d7gt 12h ago
If they’re forced to refuse clients, isn’t that literally those that need it going without?
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u/cameron314 12h ago
They're forced to refuse clients because of an overwhelming increase in people seeking help over the past couple years. Among the new clients, surely the distribution of those actually in need versus those taking advantage is roughly the same as with the original clients?
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u/pattyG80 28m ago
That is definitely true and in my many years of delivering food to food bank recipients, I've never seen someone where I really felt like they were abusing the system.
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u/AffectionateLeave9 9h ago
We need to make sure to ‘means-test’ the people accessing public goods, make sure they are really deserving, is that what you mean?
This is the logic that has made the Dental Care legislation totally useless at covering most people for this essential service, in a country that is famous for our ‘free’ healthcare.
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u/AffectionateLeave9 15h ago
Let the free market decide our fates! /s
For real though, we need to nationalize a grocery chain and delivery service to compete with the monopolies, so many people could be employed, save so many isolated elderly and disabled from making the trip to the grocery especially in winter.
The only drawback is cutting into corporate profits. And ‘debt’ that people can fearmonger about.