00:02:22.540so joining me now is good friend of the show and good friend of taxpayers everywhere and
00:02:33.640my real life good friend chris sims she's the alberta director of the canadian taxpayers
00:02:37.980federation and i saw a video chris that you put out the other day talking about the latest0.99
00:02:45.980federal government attack on the poor please explain it yeah it's actually one of the stupidest
00:02:54.100things i've ever seen and i can't understand i actually don't know so i'd love to know what your
00:02:59.760viewers think about this i actually don't know why they're doing this so long story short on last
00:03:07.460friday when the government you know brooms out stuff that they don't want the media to notice
00:03:12.560or any normal person to notice, Friday afternoon, they announce, effective immediately, they're
00:03:18.900putting a 10% tariff on canned vegetables that are imported from elsewhere, not including
00:03:27.840the United States, Mexico, Israel, and developing countries, whatever that catch-all term means
00:03:35.500nowadays and it's going to be 10 on canned vegetables and i'm like why the hell are they
00:03:44.640doing this and so in order to kind of like get my brain working i just went down the aisle
00:03:50.300literally at the grocery store with canned vegetables and a couple of other aisles and for
00:03:55.340fun i grabbed um apparently there's something called lemon curd who knew um and they really
00:04:01.360produce it in belgium it's in like the jam section and i thought it was cute to point out that we have
00:04:06.800lemon curd from belgium and it exists which is nice but obviously lemons are a fruit um so i'm
00:04:13.120like okay this doesn't count and i'm going down the aisle and i grabbed you know those baby corns
00:04:17.840those things you put in like stir fry yep and i'm like well this is product of thailand um and
00:04:25.120canada usually considers that a developing nation so i guess that's out and i keep going down the
00:04:30.320aisle and then i'm like ah okay here we go so black olives for example from spain i use them
00:04:37.200all the time in like greek salad and whatnot so that's going to be nailed and what really stopped
00:04:42.960me in my track sheila and got me super mad um it dawned on me canned tomatoes
00:04:51.200canned tomatoes um a big chunk of them come from italy because you know those folks are
00:04:57.760real good at working with tomatoes and what's super upsetting about this is that anyone who's
00:05:04.000ever pinched a penny knows that canned tomatoes are your go-to staple in your pantry if you're
00:05:10.160trying to stretch your dollar if you're making chili you're making spaghetti sauce food banks
00:05:15.920like just really count on stuff like this and they're making it more expensive on purpose
00:05:22.240you know i might even chalk it up to the liberals not even understanding where groceries come from
00:05:31.640yeah because uh you know i sorry i get really mad me too like i hearken back to mark carney's
00:05:38.680photo op at the grocery store with him and his wife and they looked like they had never been
00:05:43.780in a grocery store before they were picking up things like what is it that you do with this
00:05:47.800thing and it's i know an onion um and so maybe they don't understand that a lot of our food
00:05:54.680staples that the poor rely on are imported and also it you know it prices people out of certain
00:06:02.200specialty products like and you know for a bunch of people who say they care about canada's
00:06:07.460immigrant communities uh you know if you're going to a specialty store like the italian center where
00:06:12.760you're looking for foods your cultural foods um from places like italy or poland or or other places
00:06:20.200greece spain yeah those are going to be more expensive for canada's immigrant communities
00:06:26.740and the liberals don't seem to care about that either nope um and to be clear what we're talking
00:06:32.360about with the tariff tariffs are just taxes yep they're just taxes with the passport okay
00:06:39.060Their trade taxes. So when our government puts a tariff on something that is coming into Canada, we pay more. We all pay that. They're not punishing orange man bad down south. It's not like some magical thing that we can just wield in order to get our way in the world. It makes us have to spend more money. Real clear.
00:07:04.260And you're right. When I saw the prime minister and his wife in that grocery store, it was so awkward. It reminded me of that Black Adder line of you look like a giraffe wearing sunglasses in a polar bear only golf club. Like, yeah, you don't fit there.
00:07:20.800and they look like aliens i know they're like yeah funny it was so strange and so this is where0.97
00:07:29.260i'm scratching my head and i hope that this is just ignorance and stupidity i do um i hope0.82
00:07:37.420that this isn't deliberate and i really hope that this isn't some way there's some catch0.97
00:07:45.220where some brother-in-law or cousin or whatever is some tomato greenhouse godfather in Ontario
00:07:52.900somewhere and they're trying to you know muscle the competition out there's got to be a reason0.97
00:07:58.260Sheila like why would they bother putting a 10 percent tariff trade tax on imported canned0.55
00:08:05.840vegetables when it usually just hits the poor and it hits very specific stuff again like canned
00:08:14.560tomato is from italy so my spidey sense is tingling and i'm wondering if there's some
00:08:20.780sweetheart connection going on here and why they're doing this because i i can't explain it
00:08:26.220yeah being a penny pincher um this hits me hard um being a pickle aficionado this hits me hard
00:08:34.660oh right yes imported pickles from poland um that oh i'm so really this is gonna really bite me
00:08:42.680um but this isn't the only way that the liberals are attacking the poor and this
00:08:50.800no there's something that's been going on for a very long time and that is the gst on used cars
00:08:56.020oh my god tell us about this it's so gross and hey kudos to pierre polyev leader of the
00:09:04.640conservative party official opposition they've come out swinging against gst on used vehicles
00:09:10.640thank you um and it was it's so little known for some reason i don't know why that some a lot of
00:09:19.040the comments i was seeing on his announcement when he said we shouldn't have sales taxes on
00:09:23.180you know used vehicles people are like oh there is none yeah there is it's a five percent gst
00:09:30.500on the sale of used vehicles so if you go and you purchase a used car where again people who
00:09:39.160are desperately trying to save money which is so many people right now including two parent working
00:09:45.200families so it gets so pissed off um they're trying to save money and then the feds are like
00:09:51.840no we're putting our hand out again and taking your wallet with that hand and we're going to take
00:09:57.280hundreds of extra dollars sometimes thousands thank you off of the used vehicle that you've
00:10:04.040saved up for. I'll give you the worst case scenario example is so disgusting. It's in British
00:10:10.720Columbia. British Columbia, my home province from which I have fled, has a 12% PST. I know it makes
00:10:20.580you want to puke on the private sale of used vehicles. So my God, put it this way, you save
00:10:27.400up every dollar you've got for the entire year, you've saved like five or six grand, okay, maybe
00:10:33.560seven, if you've been really, really good and you've saved up all that money and you're going
00:10:38.740to buy that Toyota Camry, right? Or you're going to buy that older, you know, Chevy pickup truck
00:10:44.760from the nineties because you need it for the job site and you buy it from someone, you get that
00:10:49.740good deal, six or seven grand, and you go to register it with the government controlled
00:10:55.080monopoly that is ICBC and the province of British Columbia takes like a thousand extra dollars from
00:11:01.720you. Yeah. I mean, and just to be clear, they're taxing these vehicles every time they change
00:11:09.360hands. Yes. They were taxed once when they were brand new off the lot. Yep. And then every time
00:11:15.800they change hands, they're being taxed. And that's outrageous. It's an attack on the poor
00:11:23.660and it's the attack on the working class. So the vehicles are the biggest one where you just like,0.99
00:11:30.720it takes your breath away like give us a thousand more dollars because we're a bunch of blood
00:11:34.560sucking government agents um so that's in bc but federally we do still have a five percent tax a
00:11:41.700five percent sales tax on used vehicles and we have to knock it off i will point out also that0.95
00:11:48.380on the smaller end of things again you talk about people trying to save money if you're trying to
00:11:53.080like save money by buying your shoes and your like blazers for work interview and blenders and stuff
00:11:58.540from value village the government is right there with its sales tax again yeah i'm not kidding
00:12:04.840yeah like it's super gross the very fact that we have a sales tax at all makes me angry but a sales
00:12:11.500tax on used items which you're right sheila has already been sold and sold and sold and it directly
00:12:17.740goes after the people who can afford at least yeah this whenever somebody says well the government's
00:12:24.020doing its best and it has good intentions no it does not never it doesn't yeah this is nefarious
00:12:30.640we have to speak up against it yeah um in the meantime while the poor are being taxed into
00:12:37.440oblivion in a hundred different ways um developers oh my goodness British Columbia
00:12:44.600are getting a bailout and I see proponents of this bailout saying oh I guess you don't care
00:12:52.680about affordable housing. I care about affordable housing. That's why I need the immigration levels
00:12:58.080to come down. But I don't want to do that by bailing out developers. The whole point of1.00
00:13:07.260capitalism is someone takes the risk. If they succeed, they get the reward. But we are back
00:13:14.020stopping these people so that there is no risk for them. Only punishment for the taxpayer who
00:13:21.220wouldn't able be able to afford one of these condos if their lives depended on it anyway yep
00:13:26.660um so for folks again who aren't familiar with the crazy stuff that happens in british columbia
00:13:33.480i would strongly recommend that people go read sam cooper's books because what happened in the
00:13:41.580lower mainland throughout the last i'd say 20 years especially is disgusting when it comes to
00:13:47.960housing and building of housing and development. Um, there is a lot of dirty money involved with
00:13:54.520this. There's a lot of money coming over from China involved with this. Um, and the government's
00:13:59.800just whistling past the graveyard on it. It was absolutely unbelievable. So I'm not the expert on
00:14:05.020that part though. So please go read Sam Cooper. Governments were involved. They were laundering
00:14:09.720money through casinos. There were like fake mortgage companies. It was nuts. So fast forward
00:14:14.600until what she was talking about prime minister mark carney made this big ballyhooed announcement
00:14:19.460of backstopping 3.2 billion 3.2 billion to rich developers that could build more than three
00:14:28.020hospitals folks yeah okay so 3.2 billion of your money taxpayers money okay from moncton to cam
00:14:37.200loops is going into this and this is what was going to happen so they had all these condos on
00:14:43.800the market thousands of them and they weren't selling boohoo um they had a price tag of around
00:14:49.180a million dollars and omg they apparently would have had to reduce the sale price down right to
00:14:57.800like this is crazy pills yeah they were going to have to reduce the sale price and take a
00:15:04.020loss that's not my problem not our problem thank you not our problem and that's called the market
00:15:10.220so they were going to have to reduce the price of the house down to what seven or eight hundred
00:15:15.980thousand dollars as if normal people can afford to what the market can bear thank you and in swoops
00:15:21.960the federal government like tristan hopper said no no no we're going to keep this artificially
00:15:28.280inflated high price for a condo in vancouver let's keep the housing bubble going like again
00:15:36.320if you think that the government has your best interests at heart, it does not. It literally
00:15:42.800stepped into the breach of a falling house price, which might have allowed some people to buy these
00:15:48.880things and said, no, no, no, no, hold my beer at a high tax rate. Here's $3 billion and we're going
00:15:55.320to keep them artificially high. That's nuts. I've never seen anything like it. No. Like they just,
00:16:04.140things were correcting themselves we were about to get a market correction that all of these people
00:16:10.340so rightly deserve and in steps gregor robertson who owns a ton of properties by the way in the
00:16:18.840lower mainland to protect his property values at the expense of everybody else yeah and folks if
00:16:28.280you're not in the lower mainland of bc and you're living in a more sensible place like me right now
00:16:32.660like lethbridge or moose jaw where she lives um housing got so crazy that even down the frasier
00:16:39.380valley just buying a regular like bc box like a raised ranch house that hadn't been updated since
00:16:44.5001982 was costing you a million dollars yep like you would have to save like about 80 grand cash
00:16:54.340for a down payment and then your mortgage i did the calculation it was something gross it was like
00:16:59.720four grand a month for like 20 years. Like people don't have that money. Normal working people don't
00:17:06.440have that money. And so never retire about retirement ever. And like, I know working
00:17:12.620professional couples that are like, oh, our mortgage helper. What that means is they literally
00:17:16.960have a stranger renting out their basement. These are working professionals, married couples that
00:17:22.420just routinely have somebody living in their basement so they can barely afford the mortgage
00:17:27.380payment. And so this is the situation, especially in places like Vancouver and in swoops, the
00:17:34.580federal government with our wallets. Like if developers want to take their own risk, if things
00:17:40.100get expensive, whatever, that's up to them. But for the feds to step in and spend taxpayers money
00:17:45.360on it is totally wrong. I don't remember this being part of the election campaign. No. And
00:17:52.020you know when these guys make money and they have been look I'm not against that I'm I'm a
00:17:58.600capitalist you take the risk you reap the reward so they repped they reaped the rewards
00:18:06.200for a very long time and now they're about to take a loss and now we step in like that's not
00:18:15.520how it's supposed to work so that we can't afford stuff I just there's a lot of things going on
00:18:21.880right now like obviously in the news and with the government but this is one of those things that
00:18:26.520people do need to pay attention to because if they'll do this for houses in order to prop up
00:18:32.540some development group what else are they going to blow your money on like grocery stores and this
00:18:39.860high-speed rail thing yeah you know what that was the next thing i wanted to talk to you about
00:18:44.040unbelievable yeah and so for the grocery stores by the way remember abby lewis and friends
00:18:49.500thinks that a government run grocery store would be a super nifty idea. It would not.
00:18:55.440I still want to talk to Abby, though, because I think that it would be a very entertaining
00:18:59.820conversation. And I would like him to be able to explain to me how a government run grocery store
00:19:04.980would actually be beneficial and work because they tried this in the Soviet countries and it
00:19:09.720didn't work so hot. Yeah. One of my favorite pictures is a series of pictures is Russians
00:19:16.940who have come from behind the Iron Curtain experiencing American grocery stores, like0.58
00:19:22.600just the color, the choice, you know, they're just sort of overwhelmed by it all because
00:27:28.920they just moved it upstream instead of down so we can't see it as a line item but lord knows it's
00:27:34.440still there but even causing the federal government to wobble on that was in no small part thanks to
00:27:41.000the work of the taxpayers federation and all the people you're able to mobilize in support of your
00:27:46.980issues this is it and like there was a huge one that went under the radar and that's where they
00:27:51.440blinked on the capital gains tax they were going to shove that through with no law no change nothing
00:27:56.820They were just going to do it and they backed all the way down. And that's because of our standing army of tax fighters. Folks can go to our website for free taxpayer dot com. The way to join the army is to sign a petition that speaks to you. Sheila and I were talking about folks with thrift shops and used vehicles. You can sign a petition against that. You can sign a petition against all carbon taxes. You can sign one to defund all media, including the CBC. Yes, please.
00:28:22.400and the honestly yes the fight is important and we get big wins but right now I'm hearing from a
00:28:31.360lot of people that are seeking fellowship yeah because they're losing hope for real like I just
00:28:37.500met people who watch your show and I would describe them as kind of fans of the different
00:28:43.000folks on YouTube I just bumped into them literally in the Canadian Tire parking lot was taking my
00:28:48.080vacuum cleaner back um and she cried yeah and yeah i just i just want to let people know that
00:28:56.720it's a really good way to get out and like meet with people and connect with people who feel
00:29:02.560like-minded like we're having an event at the ihop um at the end of next month in july out at
00:29:08.080medicine hat and i'm expecting like a capacity crowd like and people just want to get together
00:29:13.040and feel that they're on this fight together.
00:29:15.320So if they go to taxpayer.com for free,