Liberals forget about average folks
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Summary
In the inaugural episode of The Blueprint, Canada's Conservative Podcast, host Tony Clement is joined by John Broussard and Ronna Ambrose to discuss the impact of the Liberal Budget on the middle class, including a new tax on beer and wine.
Transcript
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You're listening to The Blueprint, Canada's Conservative Podcast.
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Well, they thought they were going to have an easy day over there today, but not so fast, Mr. Speaker.
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What 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 behavior?
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And welcome to The Blueprint, Canada's Conservative Podcast, the inaugural edition here for not only
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Conservatives, but all the people of Canada as we talk about the issues, not only on Parliament
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Of course, we are emerging from the rubble of the last Liberal budget, Budget 2017.
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That'll be our first topic today as we find out, as we found out, all of the new taxes,
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After this budget, everybody's being taxed more.
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And of course, we had a lot to say about that as the official opposition and representing Canada's
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We're going to first hear from John Broussard, our amazing MP from Barry Innisfil.
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He's going to talk a little bit about why this budget is bad for the middle class.
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We're going to hear his question in the House, and then we're going to hear from Ronna Ambrose,
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our Conservative Party leader in the House of Commons.
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She has a lot to say about how this impacts on the average Joe.
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We are here for the average Joe and the average Josephine, I might add, and we are going to
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be fighting for your rights and interests, of course.
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But let's hear from our talented caucus on this issue, and we'll get back to you right
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This weekend, I'll be in Niagara Falls for a year in hockey tournament with my Barry
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And unlike the Prime Minister and his champagne and caviar-loving highbrow friends, my Beer
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League buddies don't have taxpayers paying for their booze.
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After this week's budget, not only did the tax on beer and alcohol go up, but future annual
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This means that the tax on beer will increase every single year.
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Mr. Speaker, why are Liberals taxing my Beer League buddies and our 117 Marine team to
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pay for the Prime Minister's jet-set lifestyle and private island vacations?
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Mr. Speaker, let's talk about what this budget means for a hard-working taxpayer.
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Joe takes the bus to work every day, and at the end of the day, he likes to go to the pub
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And he's a responsible guy, so he always takes an Uber home.
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And, Mr. Speaker, it even slaps a tax on his Uber.
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But, Mr. Speaker, what exactly does the Prime Minister have against people like Joe?
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But that's really ironic, because that same budget contains the tab for $1,700 worth of drinks
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and snacks during the Prime Minister's three-hour flight to a private island getaway over the holidays.
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What message does the Prime Minister think he's sending to a taxpayer like Joe
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when he raises their taxes while helping himself to free drinks on the House?
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Here's a government that is concentrating on taxing people more, spending more on goodness knows what.
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Obviously, the Prime Minister has some ethical issues that are being investigated by the Ethics Commissioner,
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amongst others, on his billionaire island getaway.
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That seems to be his focus when everybody needs an economy that is working,
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when we need to make sure that there are jobs being created.
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That's our focus as the official opposition, the Conservative Party of Canada.
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And you saw that in spades with Ronna Ambrose's question and John Broussard's question.
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You know, it really strikes me that we have a government that is really not focused on
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why they were elected in the first place and on the issues that people really care about.
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And we're going to see that time and time again.
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but we're also going to hear about positive, forward-looking solutions as they come forward.
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And we've got an incredible caucus that is working incredibly hard on behalf of the taxpayer,
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on behalf of the average Canadian, and that's going to continue on with this podcast.
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We're going to have a lot more to say about these issues in the days and weeks and months ahead.
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But you can be sure that when it comes to representing the values and the interests of Canadians,
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the Conservative Caucus is very focused on that.
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And we're going to see evidence of that in the weeks and months ahead.
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Thank you for listening to The Blueprint, Canada's Conservative podcast.
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