We don’t buy steak anymore. Mark Carney answered with a cheque to 12 million people and called it a plan. Beef is up 62.6 percent since 2021. Statistics Canada. The Liberals have held the federal government since 2015. A decade of the Liberal carbon tax, the Liberal regulatory pile, the Liberal housing shortage, and a population added faster than the paycheque. The roast left the cart. The wage did not follow. January 26, 2026. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit. Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne carried it. More than 12 million low- and modest-income Canadians. Built on the GST credit. One-time top-up in June, equal to 50 percent of the year’s credit. Then a 25 percent increase for five years, paid quarterly. $11.7 billion over six years. A family of four, up to $1,890 this year, then about $1,400. A single person, up to $950, then about $700. That is the Liberal confession. Twelve million people need a federal top-up to buy food after a decade of Liberal government. The payment is income-tested. The middle does not get it. The middle pays for it, and the middle is the one who stopped buying the steak. A rebate from Mark Carney and François-Philippe Champagne does not grow a cow, build a plant, or raise a wage. It admits the till cannot cover the basket. Finance Canada’s own line, under Champagne: since 2020, food rose faster than inflation. Dominic LeBlanc and Mélanie Joly sit in the same cabinet that wrote the rules. Sit in the House and say whose policy that was. Mark Carney. François-Philippe Champagne. Dominic LeBlanc. Mélanie Joly. The Liberals. Name them. Kitchen table first. #cdnpoli