{"id":4697,"date":"2025-12-14T09:33:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2025-12-14T09:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:33:53","slug":"food-banks-feeding-the-invaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=4697","title":{"rendered":"Food Banks: Feeding the Invaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Food Banks: Feeding the Invaders<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this shocking expose, the National Post’s (December 10, 2025) Jamie Sarkonak exposes the wholesale looting of our foodbanks by crafty foreigners, including Visa students and “temporary” foreign workers. Food bank use is soaring, even though unemployment is down slightly. If you’re a recent immigrant from the Third World, why pay at Sobey’s or Loblaws when you can get  your feed for free, courtesy of dumb Canadians, who, Trudeau propaganda suggests,  are crypto racists? A gloating “student” puts out a video that goes viral explaining how you can score $500 worth of goodies from a food bank’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jamie Sarkonak: When your food bank donations subsidize fraud and video games<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Food banks are struggling, but it’s hard to feel charitable when some people treat them like an immigration perk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boxes filled with bundles await delivery to local schools. Due to a shortfall in funding, the Food Bank is looking for donations to help the program continue to provide the needed 68 \u2013 95 bundles per week to assist local children suffering from food insecurity. Photo by Lorraine Payette\/Postmedia Network<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The struggling food bank has been a recurring motif in the news in recent weeks. Food aid agencies across the country are presenting various regional hunger reports to the public, and the results are consistently depressing: usage is higher than ever, donations are down and \u201cwe don\u2019t know how we\u2019re going to keep up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, food bank abuse seems to be a recurring problem. What\u2019s being done to prevent it from happening? It\u2019s not all that clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s who I think about when I\u2019m confronted with the donation bin at the grocery story: immigration YouTuber MR PATEL, who in 2022<\/a>, as an engineering student on a study visa, showed his viewers how to get $500 in free food by simply visiting the food bank. Media caught on \u2014 True North (as it was then) breaking much of the coverage \u2014 and a whole lot of negative attention was drawn; Patel eventually deleted<\/a> the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To his credit, he made a follow-up video<\/a> in 2024 of himself donating food to a food bank and explaining that people shouldn\u2019t use such services unless in serious need. Of his past actions, he said he didn\u2019t know any better at the time: he saw a long line of international students at his university one day, was told that they got free food on Thursdays, and figured that was that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am not making a video here because True North talked about me\u2026. If I were in (the reporter\u2019s) place, I would have done the same,\u201d he told the camera<\/a> in Hindi. \u201cIf any students post this stuff in the future, then nothing can be more vulgar than this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there are many others who never blew up online and who quietly got to enjoy their free food. One woman who moved from Nigeria to Canada in 2022 uploaded a video of herself purchasing and unboxing a PS5<\/a> \u2014 followed a month later by a video about a food bank haul<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And one couple who appeared to have moved from India to Sydney in Cape Breton in 2022 filmed themselves touring their local food bank in 2023: aside from a couple of local seniors, the primary clients appeared to<\/a> be newcomers. Most speakers in the video conversed in Hindi, but one man interviewed<\/a> by the couple gave the following message in English to viewers overseas: \u201cWhatever is there in your own country, just leave everything behind you, and just come over here\u2026. You come here and taste Canada like me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Search up some variation of \u201cfree food Canada\u201d and you\u2019ll find many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you were born here, you were likely inoculated with the strong taboo for taking freebies from baskets destined for people in serious need \u2014 people escaping spousal abuse with nothing; people who can\u2019t work due to severe physical disability; people who suddenly lose their home in a fire. Some recent immigrants might not be aware of that convention; others might be, but simply don\u2019t care to follow it; others still might be in need, and perhaps shouldn\u2019t have been granted visas in the first place. Times are already tough in Canada, and we shouldn\u2019t be welcoming more people who are in need of support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    But it seems that food banks have largely been working to make themselves more exploitable. From website FAQs to media interviews about increased strain, many appear to assume that every single person accessing their services is in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Last week, CTV News reported<\/a> on a report showing that the number of food bank users has nearly doubled; those interviewed blamed the rising cost of living \u2014 which is no doubt a large factor. And news outlets across the country covered the annual hunger report<\/a> from Food Banks Canada, gasping at the skyrocketing usage<\/a> figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    That report\u2019s findings correlated roughly with the rise of free food videos: among newcomers who have been here for less than 10 years, 34 per cent are using food banks \u2014 but back in 2019, that figure was<\/a> 13 per cent. In addition to that, one-fifth of food bank users have a job, according to the report\u2019s methodology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    What the report didn\u2019t include were figures that could restore confidence in their institutions. What proportion of food banks have family income requirements for eligibility? How many serve international students? What steps were taken in the past year to stop bad actors from taking what they shouldn\u2019t? The odd food bank here<\/a> and there<\/a> has announced restrictions on international students, but there\u2019s no collective voice being used to instill confidence in food banks as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    And while some food banks<\/a> are reducing access<\/a> for all clients as a means of rationing what little they have, they\u2019re dealing with fewer donations. The Central Okanagan Food Bank in B.C. pleaded<\/a> to the news last week about it, as did a food bank in Victoria; they didn\u2019t explain how they were preventing abuse, though. On the other side of the country, Nova Scotia\u2019s food banks are seeing<\/a> donations drop \u2014 but if that food bank tour video is representative of everywhere else in the province, you can see why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Ideally, we\u2019d care to enforce our cultural expectation of self-reliance. The inconvenient fact is that the shame and stigma we\u2019ve all been trained to feel is the force field that keeps charity services intact. Take that away and, well, people aren\u2019t going to want to give if they think they\u2019re supporting non-citizens looking to offset their gaming console spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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