Trudeau’s April fools joke will be on Canadians
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Canadians are sick and tired of the federal government not only making our lives more expensive, but making the necessities of our lives more expensive too. On this episode of the Andrew Lawton Show, let's talk about really what's happening here, specifically on Monday, April 1st.
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let's talk about really what's all happening here specifically on monday franco terrazano
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federal director for the canadian taxpayers federation uh joins us once again april 1st
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is a big day not a good one for taxpayers though is it franco what what's happening that day first
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off because it's hard to keep track of it all well april fool's day hey and like so many other
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times taxpayers are the punch line in ottawa okay you've got carbon tax going up alcohol taxes going
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up and member of parliament pay going up so you're going to pay higher prices at the pumps you're
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going to pay higher prices when you go to the bar and restaurant and your tax bill is going up to fund
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even more bloated salaries of our members of parliament so a bad day to be a taxpayer let me
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tell you yeah and i i wanted to ask a little bit about the momentum here i i know there are some
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rallies well not some i mean quite a large number of rallies and these mini convoys that are being
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uh planned for monday uh pierre polyev himself has been bringing out thousands to his axe the tax spike
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the hike uh events and whatnot i know uh your colleague chris sims i think actually right now
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or in like 30 minutes is doing a press conference in alberta so there is a groundswell here it's just
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not translating into action at the one level of government that can do something about this
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well and that's at their own peril right if liberal mps and ndp mps want to keep voting to raise people's
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carbon taxes that's at their own peril because here's the thing canadians are absolutely united
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against these carbon tax hikes canadians are sick and tired of the federal government not only making
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our lives more expensive but making the necessities of our lives more expensive canada is a big place
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you know people have to fuel up their car to get to work well the carbon tax makes that more expensive
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canada is a cold place people have to heat their homes well the carbon tax makes that more expensive
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and one more point right we all know that the grocery prices are high well let's think about
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that for a second because the carbon tax will cost canadian farmers a billion dollars by 2030
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so the carbon tax makes it more expensive for farmers to grow food it makes it more expensive for
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truckers to deliver the food and it's also making it more expensive for canadians to afford food right
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so canadians absolutely united against this carbon tax not only canadians but also provincial politicians
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of all political stripes so the only ones who are tone deaf and late to the party
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are trudeau his ministers his liberal mps and also ndp mps
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let me let me ask you here franco about the really the two bits of information that the government has
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been giving to sell the tax that i i feel are confusing to canadians and i'm hoping you have
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the numbers on this number one most canadians are better off with the tax than without it now that on
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the surface sounds ridiculous but the government touts this rebate and says no no most canadians are
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getting more in the rebate than they're paying so that's claim one uh claim two that all of the
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experts agree the carbon tax is not a significant driver of inflation it's just one you know itsy
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bitsy tiny teeny little fraction of inflation and not a significant driver go all right i'm getting
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the football and i'm going for a run ladies and gentlemen so on the rebates er wrong magic math okay
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now i think i heard the prime minister say something along the lines that the premiers are spreading
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misinformation well there is a bunch of misinformation but that is coming from prime minister
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justin trudeau his cabinet ministers and his liberal mps because the parliamentary budget officer
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the government's own independent non-partisan budget watchdog shows that the carbon tax will cost
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the average canadian family up to 911 more a year than what they get back in rebates hundreds of dollars
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more a year than what they get back in rebates well let's just set that data aside for a second okay
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let's just think about it logically they charge a carbon tax then they charge their sales tax on top
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of the carbon tax that tax on tax alone cost canadians about 500 million dollars this year
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and then it costs the government about 200 million dollars to hire the bureaucrats to administer the
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carbon tax so there is no way that a government can impose a carbon tax charge its sales tax on top of
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the carbon tax skim a bunch of money off the top to pay for a bunch of bureaucrats and somehow make
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the vast majority of canadians better off with rebates that is impossible but andrew only a couple
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months ago by his own actions trudeau proved that the carbon tax does make life more expensive remember
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he was surrounded by his atlantic caucus and he announced relief by taking the carbon tax off of
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furnace oil now why would he do that because he knows that the carbon tax does make life more
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expensive now andrew that's the rebate shenanigans busted let's talk about this letter from the
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economist well you hear economists talk about efficiency all the time well andrew it doesn't
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sound that efficient to me to make it more expensive for canadian parents to fuel up their cars to get their
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kids to soccer practice with attacks that won't solve a global issue it doesn't sound efficient to
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me to make it more expensive for canadian seniors to stay warm during the winter months with attacks
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that won't solve a global issue it doesn't sound very efficient to me to make it more expensive for
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a canadian single mom to put food on the table with attacks that won't solve a global issue and not only
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that you know who trudeau should actually be listening to the people he's supposed to represent
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canadians and the vast majority of canadians do not support his carbon tax hikes so he should listen
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to canadians and at the very least he should cancel the carbon tax hike all right april 1st are you
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going to be out in the streets as well on monday well we're hey we're going to be so busy all we're
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doing is talking carbon tax alcohol tax mp pay raise you know you talked about chris simms doing
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a press conference today i did a press conference in ottawa today and i know a lot of my colleagues
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all across canada are going to continue to bang the drum with press conferences of their own
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all right well we look forward to that as well have a great long weekend and enjoy the little bit
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more affordability you get between now and monday i guess that's the have a little tax-free rumspringa
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this weekend uh franco terrazano always good to talk to you sir have a good weekend thanks andrew
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happy easter thanks for listening to the andrew lawton show support the program by donating to true