The Trudeau government is misleading Canadians
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In the lead up to the next federal election, I expect that all politicians will gild the lily so to speak on what they re going to do. They all want your vote and will say most anything to get it. What I don t expect is for them to flat out mislead as a party platform and repeat it over and over as though the electorate are idiots.
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In the lead up to the next federal election I expect that all politicians
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will gild the lily so to speak on what they're going to do. They all want your
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vote and will say most anything to get it. I expect that. What I don't expect is
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for them to flat-out mislead as a party platform and repeat it over and over as
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though the electorate are idiots. Yesterday the Prime Minister tweeted out
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that his government has been quote investing in the middle class since the
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beginning and will keep being there for you unquote. The Finance Minister Bill
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Morneau was talking about Canada's tax rate on new business investment when he
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said quote under our plan Canadian businesses are better able to compete
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and create jobs. Not to be outdone Sean Fraser the Parliamentary Secretary to the
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Minister of Environment and Climate Change took on Conservative leader Andrew
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Scheer after saying he would scrap the Liberals carbon tax and said quote the
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facts are putting a price on pollution will reduce emissions equal to closing 30
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coal plants and make life more affordable for eight out of ten families. What?
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They're all finding ways to spin their horrible carbon tax and trying to say the
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middle class and business is doing better because of them and their policies.
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Let's look at a few facts. If the average soccer mom has to pay another $20 every
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time she goes to fill out the family van that's not helping the middle class. Let
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alone what it does to seniors on fixed incomes or single moms struggling to
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make ends meet. Never mind the costs for the average homeowner who has to heat his
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home in a frigid Canadian winter. But at the heart of this is we all are going to
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be better off somehow. The much bigger effect is what it does to business and what
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that means to everybody. Business is simple. Buy for a buck, sell for a buck and a half, out of that 50 cent
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gross profit. You pay your bills, taxes and hopefully have a nickel or two left over
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to put in your pocket. If government raises a new tax to that that eats into
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that 50 cents then business has to move to negate the effect of that new tax on
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their profit margins. There's two ways that can be done. They cut labor or they
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raise the price of their product or service. In other words hurt jobs or trigger
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inflation. That's the net effect of the Liberals imposing a carbon tax on the
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country. The soccer mom still has to go to the grocery store to buy food for the
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family. The products get to the store by truck. The company that owns that truck has
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to hike the cost of making that delivery to the grocery store which will then
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adjust its prices upward to cover the increased shipping costs. The soccer mom
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then has to pay more to feed her family. What the Liberals are spouting here is
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nothing short of nonsense. They either do not understand economics or they are flat out of a
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misleading the country. Canadians should not buy into this blatant nonsense
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regardless of which it is. For True North, I'm Leo Knight.