Poilievre Gives Fiery Speech On FOOD PRICES
Episode Stats
Words per Minute
155.50815
Summary
Learn English with Peter Yuval Pavlenko. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a speech to the Conservative Party of Canada s national convention on the cost of food in Canada and why it's higher than in the United States.
Transcript
00:00:00.080
Carney is having a really bad week. First the CBC turned on him, then CTV turned on him.
00:00:06.400
Now it seems like everybody in Canada is finally turning on him.
00:00:10.620
This recent speech by Paulyev could be the final nail in the coffin.
00:00:14.280
Let's watch it together and don't forget to stick around till the end for some commentary.
00:00:18.460
Our goals, Mr. Speaker, are very clear. Stronger take-home pay with affordable food at home,
00:00:23.280
safer streets by locking up the criminals that liberals turned loose,
00:00:26.680
secure borders by fixing the broken liberal immigration system
00:00:30.980
and a self-reliant Canada by unlocking the power of our resources, industry and entrepreneurs.
00:00:37.200
But first among all these is that we must be able to feed our people.
00:00:41.080
Conservatives believe that everyone, our families, our seniors, our workers,
00:00:46.300
deserve nutritious, delicious, affordable food on their tables.
00:00:49.980
Meat and potatoes night after night, not as a once-in-a-while treat.
00:00:53.880
They shouldn't feel stress and anxiety as they walk down grocery aisles.
00:00:58.500
In fact, they should be looking at the items that they can't wait to bring home
00:01:02.880
and transform into the next delicious family meal,
00:01:06.480
rather than looking at the price tag and wondering whether we'll empty their bank accounts.
00:01:10.980
They should have full fridges, full stomachs and full bank accounts all at the same time.
00:01:17.120
That used to be what we took for granted in Canada.
00:01:19.620
But after 10 years of liberal inflation, the cost of food is up over 40%.
00:01:25.240
In fact, since this particular Prime Minister took office, promising that he could be judged by the price of food,
00:01:32.620
food prices have been rising 50% faster in Canada than in the United States.
00:01:38.240
The Daily Bread Food Bank says this year, Toronto alone will have 4 million visits to the food bank.
00:01:44.300
That's double what it was two years ago, meaning worse than it was under Justin Trudeau.
00:01:48.920
The average family of four is expected to spend almost $17,000 on food this year.
00:01:54.920
That's up well over $800 over the previous year.
00:01:58.760
This at a time when wages are flat and joblessness is skyrocketing.
00:02:02.920
100,000 more people lost their jobs this summer under this Prime Minister's high-tax, low-growth policy,
00:02:08.540
which has given us the slowest growth in the – sorry, not growth – the fastest shrinking economy in the G7,
00:02:17.540
And meanwhile, those jobless people are walking down the grocery aisles,
00:02:21.540
seeing that beef is up 33%, canned soup 26%, grapes 24%, roasted and ground coffee 22%, beef stewing cuts up 22%.
00:02:33.540
Food costs should be dropping in this country, Mr. Speaker,
00:02:37.160
because the amount of fertilizer, fuel, water and labor that goes into producing food has dropped dramatically.
00:02:46.160
The average dairy cow can produce four times as much milk as 50 years ago,
00:02:51.920
and the average acre can produce four times as much corn.
00:02:56.160
So all of the costs of producing food are dropping, but the price of buying food is going up.
00:03:03.540
What explains the difference? Well, part of that you'll have to wait for the member from Chatham-Kent-Lamington,
00:03:09.780
with whom I will be splitting my time, a very esteemed colleague.
00:03:13.160
But part of it, I guarantee he will tell you, part of it is the cost of government,
00:03:18.300
which again is the biggest cost contributor, and it has been rising under this Liberal government.
00:03:23.780
This Prime Minister has three main grocery taxes, all of which he has been raising.
00:03:29.700
First, the industrial carbon tax on fertilizer and on farm equipment.
00:03:36.900
That tax increases the cost right up through the food chain,
00:03:41.460
a tax that this Prime Minister intends to more than triple if, God forbid, he stays in power until 2023.
00:03:51.460
This is a 17 cent a litre tax that the government is imposing that will apply on diesel and on gasoline,
00:04:01.460
replacing the carbon tax fuel charge that was in place up until I forced the government to remove it just a few months ago.
00:04:09.940
But I warned that this government would simply bring in a new carbon tax if given the chance,
00:04:16.020
and that is exactly what they are doing. That will, of course, raise the cost.
00:04:19.940
This one is worse though, because unlike the previous fuel charge, which exempted
00:04:24.580
tractors, combines and other on-farm use, this will apply.
00:04:30.740
This will apply on the fuel that goes right into the combine, the seeder, the planter, the tractor, on the farm gate.
00:04:37.700
So it will be even worse for food prices than the previous tax.
00:04:41.540
And then there's the inflation tax itself, the most immoral, destructive tax there is, the sneakiest tax.
00:04:47.620
And if the inflation tax happens when the government prints money to pay its bills,
00:04:53.460
ultimately bidding up the cost of everything Canadians buy.
00:04:56.580
If you have an economy with 10 loaves of bread and $10, it's a buck a loaf.
00:05:00.580
If you double the number of dollars to 20, but you still only have 10 loaves of bread,
00:05:05.460
well, each bread purchase goes up by 100 percent. It doubles in price.
00:05:11.700
And that is what we call the inflation tax. This Prime Minister is familiar with it because,
00:05:16.500
of course, he caused the inflation and housing crisis in Great Britain, where he was a disastrous
00:05:22.980
and now totally despised Bank of England governor. He will hopefully be apologizing to the British people
00:05:30.340
for the economic hell he left behind in that role. But instead, he's bringing that hell here to Canada.
00:05:36.980
Today, we learned that this Prime Minister is even more expensive than Justin Trudeau.
00:05:42.420
Who would have thought it possible? The deficit for this year will be,
00:05:47.460
according to the parliamentary budget officer, two-thirds higher than the one that Trudeau left
00:05:53.460
behind. Over the next five years, the deficit will add up to $314 billion, more than double the
00:06:01.780
deficits that Trudeau was expected to add over that period of time. In other words, he is borrowing
00:06:07.620
at twice the rate of Justin Trudeau, more expensive, and of course, much of that money will be printed.
00:06:13.780
Already, the Bank of Canada is signaling that it is again doing away with its main mandate, which is to
00:06:20.340
fight inflation. They've taken that mandate off of the main webpage where they used to describe their
00:06:27.940
mission as low and stable inflation, and they've replaced it with a grand pronouncement that they're
00:06:34.820
not just any bank, they are the central bank, Mr. Speaker. What they really mean is that they're
00:06:40.180
going back to printing money to pay for a Prime Minister who cannot control himself. Every dollar this
00:06:46.980
Liberal Prime Minister spends comes out of the pockets of Canadians in direct taxes or inflation
00:06:53.380
taxes. Mr. Speaker, a member across the way, I think he's the whip, is it the whip? Yeah.
00:06:59.540
He's saying he doesn't know that the Bank of Canada had a website. Another example of a Liberal who
00:07:03.780
should do a little bit more research before opening his mouth, Mr. Speaker. And he doesn't,
00:07:09.380
there's a lot of things that they don't know over there, or that they don't want Canadians to know.
00:07:15.460
We know that inflation is very good for Brookfield because the CEO of that company said so.
00:07:20.820
He said that his company profits from inflation, so the Prime Minister will get richer as he makes
00:07:26.500
Canadians poorer and hungrier through his inflation tax. Our goal on this side of the House is exactly
00:07:32.980
the opposite. C'est la raison pour laquelle nous proposons d'éliminer les taxes sur les épiceries.
00:07:38.180
Nous pensons qu'on puisse réduire le coût d'épicerie en éliminant la taxe industrielle de carbone qui augmente le
00:07:44.900
coût des ingrédients et des équipements pour les fermiers. Éliminant la taxe carbone sur le diesel
00:07:51.140
et l'essence pour permettre de produire et transporter la nourriture plus efficacement. Et finalement,
00:07:58.100
éliminant la taxe d'inflation en réduisant les déficits inflationnistes, Monsieur le Président. Il faut
00:08:04.940
couper la bureaucratie, les consultants, le BS cooperative, l'aide à l'étranger et l'argent pour les fausses
00:08:11.900
réfugiés, pour réduire le déficit et réduire le coût de la vie. On ne veut pas un déficit
00:08:18.140
financier ni un déficit nutritionnel pour les Canadiens, Monsieur le Président. Nous voulons un pays où tous les
00:08:25.100
Canadiens qui travaillent fort puissent avoir de nourriture délicieuse, abordable pour unir leur
00:08:32.140
leur famille dans une qualité de vie extraordinaire. C'est possible dans notre pays qui est béni avec
00:08:38.860
des avantages géographiques, démographiques et économiques extraordinaires. On a un bel avenir si
00:08:48.140
nous prenons les bonnes décisions. Commençons avec l'élimination des taxes sur l'épicerie.
00:08:53.580
Mr. Speaker, today we call on the government to stop taxing food. Allow Canadians to have nutritious,
00:09:01.420
delicious food. Make this a country where anyone who's worked hard can enjoy meat and potatoes on
00:09:08.620
their table in a beautiful house that they own, on a safe street with a wonderful Canadian flag
00:09:24.620
Mr. Speaker, the Leader of the Opposition, Senior Political Advisor, Jenny Byrne,
00:09:34.460
The Honorable Leader of the Official Opposition.
00:09:37.180
Mr. Speaker, of course not, Mr. Speaker. And the answer to his question, really, the question really is,
00:09:43.660
we have the ultimate corporate lobbyist as the Prime Minister of Canada.
00:09:48.700
What is he lobbying for? Tax evasion. His investments are stashed away in offshore
00:09:53.820
Caribbean bank accounts where they don't pay the taxes that Canadian pays. He wants to force
00:09:59.420
Canadians to subsidise the electric car production system that profits Brookfield. He wants Canadians to
00:10:06.620
pay higher inflation, which the CEO of Brookfield said would profit his company. We have a corporate
00:10:14.780
lobbyist as our Prime Minister, and that's why a small group of people are getting rich, making everyone
00:10:22.540
Carney is done. Carney is so done, he just doesn't realize it yet. Polyev is way too smart, and he says
00:10:30.060
things that make sense. Carney is incompetent, and says things that don't make any sense at all. I
00:10:36.940
believe it's only a matter of time before Carney either resigns, or gets forced out through a no
00:10:41.820
confidence vote. Have a bit of faith. Good things are going to happen really soon. I promise you.