Food banks in Waterloo region and Guelph expect a sharp rise in users if the United States' threatened tariffs move forward on April 2. 

Carol Mcleod-McCarthy, Managing Director of the Guelph Food Bank, told CBC Kitchener-Waterloo that the agency is already struggling to meet the community's current needs and has one thousand more clients than it had this time last year.

"They're definitely going to affect us," she said. "We're purchasing more food than we've ever done in our history and barely k…