New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh and Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre got into a heated exchange on Twitter over grocery chain CEOs.
The two threw shots at each other after Singh first tweeted that Conservatives and Liberals take donations from rich CEOs and allegedly stay silent.
“Have you ever seen Justin Trudeau or Pierre Poilievre take on Grocery CEOs?” he asked via Twitter on Monday.
A little over 24 hours later, Poilievre clapped back and called Singh “a hypocrite.”
“Since you joined the costly coalition with Trudeau, food prices and (Loblaws CEO Galen) Weston’s bonus have both skyrocketed. If you wanted to tax Weston, you’d have done it by now,” he tweeted in response.
Singh ended the conversation by saying all Poilievre does is “talk” and that when Westonwas summoned to Parliament, he “ran away.”
“You’re the gatekeeper of the super-rich,” Singh continued.
This comes on the heels of the NDP setting forth a motion to compel grocery chain CEOs to testify in Parliament and discuss elevated food costs amid inflation rates.
“No matter how many times you read it on Twitter, the idea that grocers are causing food inflation is not only false, it’s impossible,” Weston said during his testimony in March.
This isn’t the first time Singh has called out the CP leader by name. In February, he tweeted that Poilievre was protecting the heads of major grocery chains while Canadians suffered.
In fact, families could spend over $16,000 on food this year with 38 per cent of Canadians saying they are “losing ground” when it comes to their money and feel as though they are out of viable options.
