Justin Trudeau's Federal Budget 2024 adds $40 billion more to the national debt, $8.5 billion to housing, and $52.9 billion to the deficit. In order to balance the books, the government will have to raise taxes on the rich. Is it now the turn of the middle class?
00:01:59.080This is the escalation of the number of public employees, public servants, government employees, whatever you want to call them, bureaucrats, that Trudeau has hired since coming to power in 2015.
00:02:15.180I mean, that is absolutely incredible.
00:02:20.980That's more than any other prime minister in history.
00:02:25.100I mean, we know he has actually doubled the debt.
00:02:28.420He's increased the debt by more than all previous prime ministers.
00:02:33.760How else can you put this in terms that people can comprehend?
00:02:37.240And yet, you know, he continues to do this.
00:02:40.720His unalloyed narcissism continues to triumph in his personal life, at least.
00:02:48.720And it continues to dominate Canadian politics until we can find a way to remove him.
00:02:57.620And that's got to be through the next election, through a non-confidence motion, which I'm beginning to wonder if the NDP will back eventually because they can no longer see themselves as being tethered to this corrupt regime because it's going to mean their own demise.
00:03:15.360I believe, I believe, I believe very strongly that's what's going on.
00:03:20.120But clearly, if you look at these, it's absolutely astounding when you look at the statistics in terms of where we're going.
00:03:29.140This was a budget that increased the debt again and that now has redefined the rich and is going after those people.
00:03:38.860Let's listen to Freeland hold forth here.
00:03:48.060Moving with purpose to help build more homes faster, we are making life cost less.
00:03:59.020We're driving the kind of economic growth that will ensure every generation of Canadians can reach their full potential.
00:04:07.860Together, we are putting into action a plan to build nearly 4 million homes by 2031 and to unlock the door to the middle class for more young Canadians.
00:04:42.520Yet, I know, there will be many voices raised in protest.
00:04:48.060No one likes paying more tax, even, or perhaps particularly, those who can afford it the most.
00:04:56.360But before they complain too bitterly, I'd like to ask Canada's 1%, Canada's 0.1%,
00:05:05.400Do you want to live in a country where you can tell the size of someone's paycheck by their smile?
00:05:19.940Do you want to live in a country where kids go to school hungry, do you want to live in a country where a teenage girl gets pregnant because she doesn't have the money to buy birth control?
00:05:36.480Do you want to live in a country where the only young Canadians who can buy their own homes are those with parents who can help with the down payment?
00:05:46.400Do you want to live in a country where we make the investments we need in health care, in housing, in old age pensions, but we lack the political will to pay for them and choose instead to pass a ballooning debt on to our children?
00:06:08.320Do you want to live in a country where they can help?
00:06:15.320As I said earlier, Trudeau's doubled the national debt since he came into office, thanks in large part to Christia Freeland in her last four budgets.
00:06:27.320Where those at the very top live lives of luxury but must do so in gated communities behind ever higher fences using private health care and private planes because the public sphere is so degraded and the wrath of the vast majority of their less privileged compatriots burns so hard.
00:06:56.320Every one of us here in this chamber today and every Canadian across our truly great country needs to ask themselves these same questions because the stakes could not be higher.
00:07:17.320Yes, the stakes could not be higher, but of course, who's the one guilty of being the elite she's talking about?
00:09:35.320Oh, tax your food, punish your work, take your money, double your housing costs and unleash crime and chaos in your community or common sense conservatives who will ax the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime.
00:09:47.320But there's still another year and a half where Canadians have to find a way to survive.
00:09:53.320So my message to Justin Trudeau is this in one word.
00:10:38.320Stop until common sense conservatives can start governing with common sense for this country.
00:10:46.320A common sense plan to ax the tax to bring down the cost of energy, food and everything else.
00:10:55.320We will ax the carbon tax that will make our businesses more competitive, our wages higher, our food more affordable.
00:11:02.320We'll cut income tax so hard work pays off.
00:11:05.320We'll fix the budget by bringing in a common sense dollar for dollar law that requires that we find one dollar of savings for every new dollar spent.
00:11:15.320While we slash the waste and reduce the burden on the backs of Canadians, a smaller government with bigger citizens.
00:11:36.320A stark, a very stark choice between more collectivism, increasing totalitarianism, higher taxes, greater debt, and crazy programs like medical assistance and dying, read euthanasia.
00:16:47.320This is a government that's desperate to find some way of buying back a public that has grown not only cold, but completely hostile to this government.
00:17:07.320This is a government that is desperately trying to find some niche in Canadian society that still supports its aims and objectives.
00:17:17.320It is utterly failing to do that because that niche simply doesn't exist.
00:17:22.320Whether it's young Canadians or old Canadians, whether it's new immigrants or whether it's immigrants who have been here for many years, whether it's white, black, brown or any colored Canadian.
00:17:39.320This government has lost its support and they've lost their support because people are sick of working for the government.
00:17:51.320And they're sick of Trudeau's censorship and his cult of death that dominates this country.
00:18:00.320And this budget, despite trying desperately to promote some degree of hope in the future.
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