The Blueprint: Canada's Conservative Podcast - The Blueprint： NO to Liberal Tax Hikes

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00:00:42.320 We have two amazing guests here to talk about just inflation. The cost of everything is out of

00:00:47.940 control. So we have a newcomer. We have Rosemary Falk from the beautiful riding of Battleford's 0.99

00:00:52.660 Lloyd Minster in Saskatchewan and beside her, a friend of the show returning. We have Michael

00:00:56.840 Barrett from Leeds, Grenville, Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes. Thank you very much for coming

00:01:01.360 on the show. Pleasure. Well, let's start with a topic I think everyone across the country is

00:01:06.260 talking about. We have talked about it in previous shows. The cost of living is out of control. I got

00:01:11.440 a list here. Fish up 10.4 percent. Butter, almost 17 percent. Eggs, 11 percent. This is unreal and it's

00:01:18.300 not getting any better. No. And I've really tried to contextualize what it's looked like over the

00:01:26.500 course of my life because I'm hearing from constituents that they've never experienced

00:01:30.060 anything like this before. And when you look at the numbers with food inflation, so the price of

00:01:34.240 food being up when you put together all those numbers, it's more than 10 percent, nearly 11 percent

00:01:41.160 year over year food inflation. It hasn't been that high in my entire life. So over 40 years, Canadians 0.90

00:01:46.680 haven't seen anything like this. And another shocking number is that 40 percent of Canadians,

00:01:52.820 four in 10 Canadians, have had to make serious cutbacks on what they're able to afford. So

00:01:58.480 when we have a situation where food banks can't keep up with the demand, when we have people who

00:02:04.440 have to make tough choices about what they're able to put in their grocery cart, we haven't even got

00:02:08.620 to the season where everyone's clicked on their furnace yet. I've got big concerns about the choices

00:02:15.320 people are going to have to make about heating their homes or feeding their families. And a government

00:02:19.240 that's, you know, frankly, preparing to raise taxes on Canadians instead of being laser focused on

00:02:26.220 making life more affordable. Yeah, the carbon tax goes up. But again, look at the policies of this

00:02:30.400 government, right? Let's short the energy supply in this country. Let's not help out the world that is 0.61

00:02:35.220 in desperate need of Canadian energy. We have basically shut down any future development in this.

00:02:41.320 Then they start musing about cutting back fertilizer use by farmers. So the price of groceries, as we just

00:02:46.720 talked about, it's already going up. They're just going to skyrocket even more. It's like I keep

00:02:51.920 saying they're doing it to you, not for you. Absolutely. But even food insecurity, that's a real

00:02:57.160 issue, right? When we look at the cap on fertilizer use, I mean, we can talk about global food insecurity,

00:03:04.040 but how about Canadian food insecurity? Because it's a shame that we really, we have everything in

00:03:10.080 Canada. We are the breadbasket of the world. And it'll be a shame if we can't feed the people in

00:03:16.360 our own country. Oh, absolutely. I think it's something that we should be proud of and ready

00:03:20.620 to export. But yet we have a government that is continuing to put more red tape, more blockages

00:03:25.520 in terms of productivity in place. But what I do like to see is the Jagmeet Singh in Parliament is

00:03:31.360 really funny watching somebody who claims he's a socialist with the best suits on the best watches,

00:03:37.300 he drives the best cars, right? Like socialism is for the people, not the socialist, right? He can

00:03:41.820 have the best vacation homes, the best whatever. But it's the people who suffer with the effects of

00:03:47.000 socialism. So when he supports things like more government spending, something that caused inflation

00:03:52.880 in the first place with all this extra cash flying in the atmosphere, he's really not putting

00:03:58.140 a damper on inflation. He's just trying to fight cancer with more cancer, right? Let's expand the

00:04:03.660 tumor. Well, exactly. And well, in Rosemary's part of the country, people are being put out of work

00:04:11.280 by the policies that the NDP is advocating for. So he, you know, he's quite comfortable with his

00:04:17.940 job and, you know, with his bespoke suits and his Rolex watch. Meanwhile, he wants to shut down our oil

00:04:25.300 and gas sector, which is, you know, I don't need to tell you, Rosemary, it's the, you know, the clean,

00:04:30.880 it's the, it's the, it's the cleanest, most ethical energy in the world. And they're trying to scare

00:04:36.660 that investment overseas so that we can prop up dictators instead of supporting, you know, Canadians 0.95

00:04:41.260 who are, who are extracting that natural resource for us. And something I really get frustrated with

00:04:46.140 is this do it, do as I say, not as I do. Right. And we see that all the time here. And it's so

00:04:52.940 frustrating for me because the people that I represent in rural Canada, uh, they just want to

00:04:57.720 work. They just want to work. They want to raise their family. Yeah. Just let them contribute to 0.51

00:05:03.160 society. You know, it's, and it's funny, I talk about this a lot too, um, in regards to energy

00:05:07.220 companies in my small communities, it's the energy companies that put money into the hockey rinks,

00:05:13.440 put money into the local, local hospitals, whether it's, um, in Lloydminster, we had a

00:05:18.560 helipad. Um, so now stars air ambulance can come to our community donated by community members and

00:05:24.940 the local energy company. Like this is the things that they do for our communities. Um, it's not

00:05:31.320 government and the people that I represent want government out of the way and less of it. I mean,

00:05:35.560 what's super frustrating for me is, um, you know, this dental care plan that the NDP has forced

00:05:42.060 the liberals to do, right. Um, they're in favor of big fat government, increased bureaucracy,

00:05:49.240 increased red tape, making it more difficult for the people that don't have the resources or maybe

00:05:54.360 the advocates to be able to sit on the phone line for hours. I mean, they can't even run a passport

00:05:59.780 office. How are they going to run another program? It's not going to be efficiently or effectively.

00:06:04.880 That's for sure. Well, that's another thing, right? Like they, they want to add more to the pile

00:06:08.940 already. They're doing the things they have under their jurisdiction very poorly. You shouldn't

00:06:13.500 have to wait and camp outside a passport office for days at a time just to get your passport or,

00:06:19.000 or continually wait for your immigration file to be, to be processed. It is absolutely out of

00:06:24.180 control. You need to focus on the core, core job of government. Yeah. And, and just get it done.

00:06:30.380 I, I have, um, constituents who after, and this is, I mean, expected after restrictions, um, were being

00:06:37.340 lifted, uh, almost everywhere. They are looking at booking a trip. They don't have passports and this

00:06:44.320 would be their first time going on a trip. They applied in April. You know, want to know what they,

00:06:48.480 my, my office was told? Well, tell them to book a trip so that they can get in the queue.

00:06:53.020 That's not what your website says. Don't book a trip without a passport. Like it's so ineffective.

00:06:58.220 It's just laughable. Yeah. For the longest time they said, get your passport first, then book.

00:07:03.340 Says that on the website. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It shouldn't be a triage, uh, a triage passport

00:07:08.720 system, a, you know, a government service by triage. And, you know, the, the dental checks that

00:07:15.180 they're going to send out, um, are not a dental care program. Um, this is because it's provincial

00:07:22.280 jurisdiction because 70% of Canadians already have, uh, dental care and, and because, um, you know,

00:07:29.200 11 of 13 provinces and territories already have dental supports for low income children. So this

00:07:35.660 is duplicating, um, what already exists, but it's also, uh, you know, inflationary in, in what they're

00:07:41.460 putting, what they're putting on offer. So we have, we have the provinces and territories who've asked

00:07:46.420 to meet with the prime minister for two years to talk about healthcare and, and the prime minister

00:07:52.060 has refused, but the premiers have told him publicly that they don't want a dental care

00:07:58.340 program. They need to sort out, uh, emergency rooms and physicians and, uh, you know, all kinds

00:08:03.380 of care, access to care issues that, that they're dealing with. And he has ignored them and is

00:08:07.980 instead, you know, uh, cutting checks to, you know, frankly, to, to prop up his, uh, his government

00:08:13.640 and this coalition deal with the NDP, that's not putting Canadians first and it's driving

00:08:17.920 inflation, driving up the cost of everything. Oh, I was just going to add. So even coming

00:08:23.240 from rural Canada, I mean, we have our own issues with doctor shortages. I mean, when we look at the

00:08:28.220 burnout, um, coming in this post COVID era on our healthcare system, I mean, the frontline workers,

00:08:33.220 whether it's, um, therapists, nurses, doctors, I mean, they're just burnt out. And so it isn't,

00:08:38.980 I believe, you know, and maybe not the most effective way that, um, the NDP could be bragging

00:08:45.120 of, you know, the work that they're doing for Canadians. Well, if you look back one third of all

00:08:49.820 spending, so about 150 billion was, was projects that had nothing to do with COVID, but couched in

00:08:55.260 the language of COVID. This is something that they, they could have stopped spending or reduced

00:08:59.200 spending on, but instead they had to give out all this extra money causing inflation, expanding

00:09:04.380 the money supply, et cetera, et cetera. And now we're feeling these effects and now everyday

00:09:08.880 Canadians just trying to get by is like you said, off the top are making serious and drastic choices

00:09:14.360 to their budget in order to keep the lights on and keep food on the table. Right. And the paycheck

00:09:20.560 tax that we're expecting on, on January 1st, where Canadians are going to take less home at a time

00:09:26.900 when their paycheck already wasn't going as far because of inflation. Um, you know, they're going to

00:09:32.180 get hit again with the carbon tax being tripled by this government. And so, uh, anyone who is not,

00:09:38.560 uh, able to, uh, you know, take public transit or walk to do all of their, you know, daily activities,

00:09:44.700 um, they're going to feel this in, in a big way. You know, people who live in rural Canada who don't

00:09:49.500 have access to public transit, who need their vehicles to, to get to work, get to medical appointments,

00:09:53.200 get to school, they're going to feel it, but it's also going to drive up the cost of, of everything

00:09:56.800 from, you know, from farm to table, all prices are going to go up and it's going to

00:10:01.840 punish people, frankly, for, um, you know, just living their lives in, in one of the world's

00:10:06.220 coldest climates. Heating your home is not a behavior that needs to be discouraged. Canadians

00:10:10.220 deserve better from, from government than what they're seeing from these liberals.

00:10:13.660 Oh, absolutely. So the government has decided to come up with some, some temporary measures,

00:10:18.080 some one-time payments with GST rebates, rent subsidies, just trying to help people. And there's,

00:10:23.120 I don't think there's any disagreement that people need help. People need help. It's out of

00:10:27.100 control. The issue I think we have with it as conservatives, we're, uh, you know, we're going

00:10:31.780 to, to support it. But I think what we are trying to point out, yes, they need help. But at the end

00:10:36.140 of the day, when the checks are gone, inflation is still there. You need the long term, you need to

00:10:42.380 think the long game here. And what they should have been doing is listening about two years ago,

00:10:46.560 when, when our leader was pointing out that inflation is not going to be temporary.

00:10:51.300 Right. And, and so to be clear, we're going to, you know, we're going to support the, um, the Bill C-30,

00:10:59.440 which is going to offer, um, a GST, increase to the GST rebate for, um, some, some low income earners. And,

00:11:08.540 uh, that's not what we asked for, but, um, it's, uh, it's in the right vein of what the government could do. Uh, but,

00:11:16.700 they need to address the root cause of the problem. And that's, um, their, their uncontrolled

00:11:24.800 spending. Um, and, you know, they need to seriously entertain some, uh, practical solutions,

00:11:30.380 you know, from the voice, uh, in Pierre Polyev, who said two years ago that there was going to be

00:11:34.620 inflation. And the finance minister said, nope, there's going to be deflation. The Bank of Canada

00:11:38.660 governor said, nope, we're expecting a period of deflation. Well, that didn't happen. So, um, a good

00:11:43.300 indication, um, of, of sound financial advice has come from Pierre Polyev, and that's that,

00:11:48.120 um, this government should, uh, not introduce any new spending unless they're prepared to find a

00:11:53.660 dollar of savings. So, um, for every dollar they want to spend, find a dollar they're prepared to

00:11:57.340 save. That is going to send the right message to Canadians that, that they're feeling their pain.

00:12:01.460 They're prepared to make sacrifices too for their pet projects to, to prop up their coalition or their,

00:12:06.160 their, you know, pork barrel politics for their, their own ridings. Um, but it's also going to help us

00:12:11.800 address the root cause and mean that we need to send less stimulus checks because, uh, inflation

00:12:16.720 will, will start to correct. One dollar in, one dollar out, I think is how most Canadian families

00:12:21.140 run their budgets, run their households. And even small businesses. Yep. I think that's something too

00:12:25.800 that's, um, being forgotten in the government rhetoric because even with those payroll taxes

00:12:31.520 going up, we can't forget that small businesses will also have an increase. Absolutely. Right.

00:12:35.300 They're going to be paying those EI premiums as well. And so if, if the government, uh, keeps

00:12:42.220 increasing taxes as such, eventually these small businesses are going to have to let go

00:12:47.300 of employees or close their doors. Right. Potentially stop any planned hirings. Exactly. And which is

00:12:53.620 going to, I mean, affect the family, right? Yeah. Yeah. And the cascading effect on that. Yeah. Yeah.

00:12:59.220 The good news. Arrive Can is going. My goodness. It's finally. Yeah. It's, it's great news. The

00:13:05.760 government's policy has lagged the science for several months. They have kept up with the

00:13:10.620 political science. They lagged the science, kept up with political science. And that's what they've

00:13:14.560 been doing. And so canceling these measures at our borders, the, um, the mandatory use of

00:13:18.940 Arrive Can, the proof of vaccination, quarantine, isolation requirements, as well as masking on

00:13:24.560 planes and trains. This has been a long time coming and, um, they've, they've been unable to

00:13:30.060 explain their rationale for keeping it in place, except that it's consistent with one thing. And

00:13:34.060 that's that this government is intent on trying to divide and stigmatize Canadians instead of doing,

00:13:39.300 um, what they should be focused on doing. And that's, um, helping Canadians, uh, you know,

00:13:44.020 uh, frankly, put food on the table for their families and, uh, and to be able to heat their homes,

00:13:48.120 get out of the way, let Canadians do what they do best. Um, and that, you know, Canadians are,

00:13:53.020 are creators. We, we, we create jobs. We, uh, we innovate, but my goodness, this government has,

00:13:58.780 uh, has an unbelievable ability to just, uh, gum up the works and get in the way. So,

00:14:02.840 so it's, it's good news. The next step though, is that they frankly should, should refund anyone

00:14:08.380 that they hit with their $6,200 fine for using this, this failed experiment of a, of a mandatory app

00:14:14.560 and, um, you know, and, and make right for anyone that they've sent to collections and,

00:14:18.420 and certainly cancel any that are, that are outstanding. So, um, still some more work to do there,

00:14:22.980 but you know, it's, it's good news. It's on the right track, but so long and, and almost,

00:14:29.220 I think many people realize that they weren't, again, doing it for you, for your protection.

00:14:34.480 They were doing it to you, basically punishing those that did not vote for Justin Trudeau.

00:14:39.120 That's right. That's basically what it was. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. And, uh, and it seems to

00:14:43.300 correspond with a very interesting milestone. Yes. When did the science change? The science seemed to

00:14:48.160 change right around the time that, uh, that we elected our, our, our leader, uh, Pierre Polyev and,

00:14:54.460 uh, and, and my goodness, they, they started to pay attention to the cost of living crisis that

00:14:59.240 Canadians are facing and to their unscientific and unjustified border measures. So what,

00:15:04.320 what a coincidence. So I think that's really great news and a good sign of things to come for,

00:15:08.960 for Canada. So I'm, I'm, I'm hopeful. I'm hopeful too. We got to get out of here. We're out of time.

00:15:13.180 As always, we give the guests the last word. Uh, you're new to the show, Rosemary, so we'll let

00:15:17.160 Michael go first. How's that Michael or the floor is yours for closing comments? Well, I, it's,

00:15:21.220 it's, um, like I said, I'm hopeful. I think that, you know, Canada's best days are ahead. And,

00:15:25.700 and I believe that because, um, we have in his majesty's official opposition, Canada's conservatives

00:15:32.660 are, uh, united in making life affordable for Canadians, holding this government to account

00:15:38.680 and demonstrating to, to Canada that, uh, that we're ready, uh, to, to form government. And,

00:15:44.140 you know, they'll, in, in, in conservatives, um, they're going to have a government that puts

00:15:47.800 them first. So, so I'm hopeful. Rosemary is very well said, Michael. Uh, yes, it's almost like

00:15:52.960 there's a new, um, and maybe it's with the new session also. Um, it's just so great to hear

00:15:58.360 across the, across the aisle, um, from some of these liberals and NDP acknowledging, you know,

00:16:03.840 some of the things that we've been saying, um, and that they're, they're hearing that. Yeah. It,

00:16:08.840 the, the cost of living doesn't just stop around, you know, the rise of cost of living isn't just

00:16:14.060 around my riding it's throughout Canada. Right. So, um, I'm excited to see what's to come here in the,

00:16:20.900 in the next few, the next few months really. And, uh, I'm really excited to see the NDP become more

00:16:28.180 and more irrelevant. Yeah. That might be the right word, you know, on that note, as I can say,

00:16:35.540 um, in Saskatchewan, um, the NDP, the provincial NDP actually have, are talking about retracting

00:16:41.780 their invite to the leader of the federal NDP because they think that they are hindering

00:16:46.220 their electoral success in Saskatchewan. So it's quite interesting. Yep. Up and up.

00:16:50.660 Absolutely. Rosemary Falk, member of parliament for Battleford's Lord Minster. Hope you enjoyed

00:16:54.660 yourself on the show. Hope you'll be back again soon. Michael Barrett, of course,

00:16:58.420 always welcome. Just like Rosemary is a good to have you back on from, uh, I gotta get this right.

00:17:03.500 Leeds, Grenville, Thousand Island, and Rideau Lake. I had it right the first time. I appreciate you

00:17:06.860 both being on the show and I appreciate your time. We do. Please like, comment, subscribe,

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The Blueprint: Canada's Conservative Podcast - September 27, 2022

The Blueprint： NO to Liberal Tax Hikes

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