Learn English with Andrew Scheer, the new leader of the United Conservative Party of Canada. Andrew is a man of principles and integrity, who has given a strong, intelligent, intelligent leadership to us as the National Conservative Party and I believe that Andrew will be a great Prime Minister of Canada
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00:00:09.040Is the Prime Minister actually saying that taxpayers should be on the hook when he breaks the law?
00:00:20.420What is it going to take for the Prime Minister to have any respect for any laws in this country that may curb his out-of-control behaviour?
00:00:30.000All these deficits leading to nothing but burying Canadians in taxes.
00:01:31.500We know it all across the country that we are stronger united.
00:01:35.280And so that is why two years ago I launched a campaign with a grassroots army of Albertans to bring together common sense Conservatives, free enterprises, a big tent coalition on the basis of our shared values to present a united alternative to the NDP in Alberta.
00:01:58.200And I'm pleased to say that free enterprises of all kinds decided to focus on what unites us and not what divides us, to move together united.
00:02:09.940And 95% of the members of our two legacy parties voted yes to unity a year ago.
00:02:16.600So friends, we've done that in Alberta and we did it federally.
00:16:29.240and I can't wait to sit down at the premier's table with Scott Moe and Doug Ford to say that we are going to stand up for common sense and Canadian taxpayers in fighting the Trudeau carbon tax together
00:16:47.240so I'm so excited that Andrew Scheer has said that bill number one of a future federal conservative government will be the carbon tax repeal act because let's be clear these carbon taxes they're all economic pain and no environmental gain the proponents even admit that you know the fellow who invented the NDP's carbon tax in Alberta
00:17:04.320said that if other jurisdictions outside Canada don't impose their own carbon taxes it will simply lead our carbon tax will lead to quotes carbon leakage
00:17:11.320which is what self-styled smart people say happens when investment goes to other parts of the world it doesn't reduce global carbon emissions it just reduces Canadian jobs
00:17:18.320now let me be clear forcing widows queedy
00:17:28.400now let me be clear forcing widows on fixed incomes to pay more
00:17:35.240reduce global carbon emissions, it just reduces Canadian jobs. Now let me be clear, forcing widows
00:17:42.600on fixed incomes to pay more to heat their homes, forcing working women and men to pay more to fill
00:17:50.040up their gas tank, to take the kids to hockey practice, or to go to work, that's not an
00:17:55.320environmental policy. That's simply a policy for more government control over people's ordinary
00:18:03.480lives, driving up the cost of living when it's already too high, and that's why we Conservatives
00:18:08.920are on the right side of history in saying that we will liberate Canadians from these destructive
00:18:13.800job-killing carbon taxes. Friends, I just want to say a last word about my experience over five years
00:18:29.080in Stephen Harper's government as a Minister of Immigration and ten years as Minister of Multiculturalism.
00:18:34.520Notre chef a parlé, je crois, d'une façon très intelligente hier soir au sujet de diversité
00:18:43.800et des valeurs les plus importantes dans l'histoire du Canada, celles de liberté. Mesdames et Messieurs,
00:18:52.680les gens de partout au monde ne viennent pas au Canada pour vivre une colloque sur la question
00:19:00.520de diversité. Ils viennent au Canada pour devenir les Canadiens et les Canadiennes, pour être les
00:19:09.800héritiers d'une grande tradition de liberté qui a été créée par nos institutions et nos traditions,
00:19:21.560par une certaine culture politique. Friends, folks from all around the world who dream of coming to Canada
00:19:29.320don't want to come here to live a colloquium on diversity. They come here to become Canadian.
00:20:24.680We are the great champions of that tradition of unity in diversity. Canada was built by the underdogs of history. From our First Nations people,
00:20:31.720we are the great champions of that tradition of unity in diversity. Canada was built by the
00:20:46.840unity in diversity. Canada was built by the underdogs of history. From our First Nations people, who have
00:20:55.880suffered great dislocation, but who have maintained vital communities in the northern half of North America for millennia.
00:21:01.880To the United Empire loyalists who were refugees from the American Revolution. To the Highland clearance Scots who settled Cape Breton.
00:21:19.960And to the potato famine Irish. To the Jews of the pogroms of Europe before the Second World War and the survivors of the Shoah who came after it.
00:21:28.920From the refugee, the Mennonites who came here facing persecution and settled southern Manitoba and parts of northern Alberta.
00:21:39.960To the Czechs of 1968 and the Hungarians of 1956. And to the refugees who join us today, like the some 20,000 Iraqi refugees who I welcome,
00:21:51.960the people who were facing genocide and ethnic cleansing. To the gay Iranian refugees who have come to Canada's
00:21:58.760safety as a result of a program that I created. Altogether, these people may have been the losers of history in their own countries,
00:22:06.360but they did not bring to Canada a sense of resentment. They brought to this country a sense of hope.
00:22:11.800A desire to look forward. A desire to be united. A desire to be Canadian. We are the champions of those people.
00:22:19.080Of those underdogs of history. And it is our job to ensure that Canada once again presents to them
00:22:25.320a future of equality of opportunity. The great champion of human dignity in world affairs. It is up to us to do that
00:22:33.640in the year ahead. I hope you're up to the task. So let us get that done. Let us do the hard work.
00:22:39.560Let us elect a majority Conservative government. L'année prochaine, un gouvernement majoritaire conservateur. Merci beaucoup.
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