The Blueprint: Canada's Conservative Podcast - June 25, 2024


The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 2)


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00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome once again to The Blueprints. This is Canada's Conservative Podcast. I'm
00:00:09.460 your host, Jamie Schmael, Member of Parliament for Halliburton, Co-Wortho-Legs Brock, with
00:00:12.640 new content for you every single Tuesday, 1.30 p.m. Eastern Time. Don't forget to tell
00:00:17.280 your friends. They can like, comment, subscribe, and share this program. The spring parliamentary
00:00:21.720 session is over. It's now wrapped up. To look back on it, to talk about the good, the bad,
00:00:27.200 the ugly is the crew once again. Tom Commitch, he's the Member of Parliament for Calgary Shepard
00:00:31.660 and also Kelly McCauley, the Member of Parliament for the Edmonton Mall. Thanks very much for
00:00:36.260 coming on, guys. Edmonton West. Edmonton West. Sorry, I apologize. I apologize. It was an
00:00:42.480 interesting parliamentary session coming back in January and just wrapping up in June.
00:00:46.540 It was. You know, every week from my office, we put out a newsletter, the good, the bad,
00:00:51.180 and the ugly. And we always struggle to find a good. There's always lots bad and ugly under
00:00:56.660 the Trudeau Jagmeet Singh regime. And today we're going to do a end of session wrap up with
00:01:03.980 the spring's good, bad, and ugly. All right. So as you do the newsletter, you can kick it off.
00:01:09.120 Let's start with the good. Might as well start on a positive note. The good is the polling number
00:01:13.240 showing popularity of the Conservative Party, Pierre Polyneb, our leader, winning across many demographics,
00:01:21.940 young, middle-aged, myself, the old. Okay, young and old like myself. But just great numbers, people very positively
00:01:33.660 responding to our message of hope, of change. And we're seeing that across the country as well
00:01:39.660 when the leader goes out to do some of his rallies.
00:01:42.120 Yeah. I mean, he's up, we're up 20% of the polls, depending which poll you look at. So it varies
00:01:47.300 from 14 to 20. It's consistent, yeah, across all demographics. But the biggest change since 2015,
00:01:53.060 for anyone who's a Conservative and is wondering, like, about the young people, is, you know,
00:01:57.840 are young people actually turn around? They are, because the housing situation is so bad. Rent is so
00:02:02.060 high. Groceries are expensive. And career opportunities are shrinking. So even in that demographic,
00:02:07.040 they're doing a lot, we're doing a lot better. So one in five now, young people under 29 is saying
00:02:13.400 they're going to vote Liberal. And then a huge chunk of them, 31%, which is one in three, is saying
00:02:18.360 they're going to vote Conservative. That's unheard of since 2015. We've never had it where so many
00:02:23.260 young people, you know, the biggest group is saying they'll choose the Conservatives over anyone else.
00:02:28.180 These are usually amongst decided voters. That's a big deal. That's a very big deal.
00:02:31.040 Yeah, I think these left of centre parties have just gone too far, right? Like, look at what we're
00:02:35.380 talking about, the housing, especially in British Columbia. If you look at our poll numbers in
00:02:38.840 British Columbia, they are looking better than I've seen in recent memory. The addictions, the mental
00:02:44.540 health, the affordability, it just all comes together. Yeah. I've been door knocking in places
00:02:50.500 like Burnaby, New Westminster. I've done North Vancouver, West Vancouver over the past few months.
00:02:55.320 And it's incredible. You find a lot more people who say things like, I voted Liberal in the past.
00:03:00.800 I'm not voting for them again. I'm going to vote Conservative. And then many times,
00:03:04.960 I find their kids are home. And I mean kids, I mean like 25-year-olds who are still at home and
00:03:09.760 they can't afford like a $4 million house in North Vancouver. That would be on the low end.
00:03:14.020 And they're saying like, I can't move out from my parents' home because the housing prices are
00:03:18.300 just ridiculous. I would have to move to, then they say things like Abbotsford or Maple Ridge,
00:03:23.800 like way out. And that's just the Vancouver region. And that's far. Like, and if you're working
00:03:28.000 somewhere in like Richmond, you're talking like an hour drive to work, an hour and a half. So then it's
00:03:32.540 like GTA. If you move to Vancouver, you live in Vancouver, that is not the expectation you had
00:03:37.020 when you were growing up. But it is the reality you have today. And then rent is absolutely
00:03:41.140 ridiculous. It's doubled since 2015. And it's reflected now in our polling numbers and how many
00:03:46.260 people come to the rallies and want to meet Pierre personally. And he has a rule. He stays at every
00:03:51.560 single rally until the very end and meets every single person that wants to shake hands with him
00:03:56.720 and tell them their story and hear them out. That's unheard of. Like no other leader in Canada
00:04:02.080 does that right now or has done it before. And again, the polling numbers reflected. We're up 20
00:04:06.780 points in the polls. And it doesn't matter what the liberals do. I think many Canadians simply don't
00:04:12.060 trust Justin Trudeau. They don't trust Jagmeet Singh. They want someone who's authentic. And you get that
00:04:18.060 in spades with Pierre of Oliver. All right. We have cut one all queued up here. So this is,
00:04:23.040 as you were just talking about, the crowds kind of reflected. A wide group, a swath of people,
00:04:28.940 young, old. This is Nanaimo. This is Nanaimo. So this is like a stronghold here.
00:04:36.700 So the thing about Nanaimo is like this is a riding that historically, a long time ago,
00:04:41.520 we were very competitive in it. And then the Greens and the NDP start to make it into a left-wing
00:04:46.140 stronghold and kind of trading that seat between themselves. And today, you have this many people
00:04:51.880 wanting to come out, sometimes on weekdays, which is a work day. And our supporters, they work. Like
00:04:56.840 they work shift jobs. They work day jobs. They work evening shifts. They don't have time to come
00:05:01.380 out to these things. And they're making it a time to come out. So our candidate there, Tamara, is doing
00:05:05.260 a lot better than I think many people are trying to work. And we're seeing this across the country,
00:05:08.200 like the leader will go into liberal, long-held liberal writings and get 2,000 people.
00:05:14.060 I guess remarkable, unseen. Yeah, places that haven't seen a conservative in a long time.
00:05:19.600 No, and getting 2,000. And then Trudeau will show up and get 50 people.
00:05:24.720 But now they're in desperation mode. The government's in clear desperation mode.
00:05:28.900 We have that clip. We're going to queue up cut two here. This is Trudeau at the Federation of
00:05:34.440 Canadian Municipalities Conference in Calgary. So this is elected mayors, probably CAOs.
00:05:39.520 And these are generally very left-leaning organizations in cities.
00:05:45.100 So let's play cut two.
00:05:47.260 We're dropping inflation and we're being there for Canadians, not with cuts and austerity.
00:05:51.600 And we're going to keep doing that. And on the carbon price, it actually puts more money
00:05:55.320 in the pockets of 8 out of 10 Canadian families. That's a parliamentary budge officer who says
00:05:59.820 that. It's absolutely true.
00:06:01.960 I don't know what that laugh was.
00:06:06.080 I don't know, but I just had to shiver down my spine.
00:06:10.860 It was weird. And he's obviously taking heat from people who he thinks should be on his side.
00:06:16.260 Like he's done with other people, young people, he takes their votes for granted.
00:06:19.760 He's taking a lot of voters for granted.
00:06:21.600 And even in Calgary, Federation of Canadian Municipalities would usually give him an easy time.
00:06:25.960 And you can see he's nervous there. And that odd laugh at the very end after he spills out
00:06:31.420 all these numbers are completely untrue based on the government's own numbers.
00:06:35.620 Not the PBO's numbers, like he likes to say.
00:06:37.940 And obviously, he knows he's losing. He knows he's on the back foot.
00:06:41.840 And again, polls reflected. He reads the same polls we do.
00:06:44.560 I'm sure his polling numbers internally are even worse.
00:06:47.180 And even his answer.
00:06:47.940 Like, part is an answer, and it's kind of a non-part.
00:06:51.840 Well, and this is the funny thing about his carbon tax.
00:06:57.100 He sits there to the cities who have to pay the carbon tax.
00:06:59.740 The school boards have to pay the carbon tax.
00:07:02.380 They've written to us asking to be exempted from the carbon tax.
00:07:06.420 And he's telling the cities and the school boards how much better they are under the carbon tax.
00:07:13.240 It's not true.
00:07:13.960 They're not buying it anymore.
00:07:14.820 Schools, municipalities do not get rebates.
00:07:17.380 That's right.
00:07:17.720 They pay out of their budget.
00:07:21.200 I'm sure the mayors and councillors are hearing all about affordability crisis, too.
00:07:24.740 So that's reflected in that.
00:07:26.640 Are we good to move on, or did anyone want to add on to that?
00:07:29.300 All right, the bad, Mr. McCauley.
00:07:31.180 Well, the bad is the corruption issues going on.
00:07:35.320 The procurement issues, we've seen many typical liberal issues.
00:07:40.580 We've seen many this year.
00:07:41.600 Of course, the big one, arrive can, or as we call it, arrive scam,
00:07:45.400 where the government spent $60 million to develop an app that didn't work for people returning to Canada.
00:07:52.380 And we found out tens of millions went to IT subcontractors who did no work on the project,
00:08:01.300 who then subcontracted it out to big corporations to do the work.
00:08:06.200 One of them, from GC Strategies, had their house raided by the RCMP.
00:08:12.220 Another big scandal of McKinsey.
00:08:14.500 Great friends of the liberals, used to be run by Trudeau's friend, Dominic Barton.
00:08:20.000 We found sole source contracts.
00:08:23.640 The government actually violating contracting rules in order to give work to McKinsey, sole sourcing.
00:08:30.560 Actually, after putting out the bid for tender, changing the rules so that only McKinsey could bid and win.
00:08:38.460 And, of course, the big one, the Green Slush Fund, where I think Tom will...
00:08:42.200 The Green Slush Fund is terrible.
00:08:44.900 Like, you even have civil servants, bureaucrats, talking amongst each other in these emails that were released,
00:08:49.580 saying this is sponsorship scandal level of misspending and corruption.
00:08:54.580 And for those who don't remember the sponsorship scandal,
00:08:56.640 that was the big issue that brought down the Paul Martin, Jean-Clairentier, and Liberal government.
00:09:02.800 And that was famously the Federal Accountability Act, which was Bill 1 of the Stephen Harper government,
00:09:06.820 was to clean up all the corruption related to advertising dollars being spent in the province of Quebec
00:09:11.780 on promoting the federation and federalism.
00:09:16.040 So that was misused by the liberals for partisan gain.
00:09:18.640 And now the Green Slush Fund today, in really brief, it was a fund, which has the acronym is SDTC.
00:09:24.260 It's meant for, like, green technology.
00:09:26.620 And now it turns out that the board members on it, in something almost in 100 decisions,
00:09:31.420 they had an open conflict of interest they knew about and participated in decision-making
00:09:35.740 to give their own companies money.
00:09:38.060 The chair actually gave her company, while she was sitting at the table, $217,000.
00:09:44.680 That same Green Slush Fund in 2017 was not a slush fund.
00:09:48.820 It got a clean bill of health from the Auditor General.
00:09:51.440 Jim Balsillie was the chair.
00:09:53.160 There was a Calgarian who was kind of the CEO of the organization.
00:09:56.660 What did the liberals do?
00:09:57.940 They bumped them.
00:09:58.560 They replaced them immediately.
00:09:59.600 Within three days, they got a new chair.
00:10:01.140 They bring in their new chair.
00:10:03.040 And the corruption begins immediately.
00:10:04.160 Lying to the Trudeau Foundation, no doubt.
00:10:05.520 Absolutely.
00:10:05.800 Oh, and $123 million, the Auditor General now found, was corruptly given out to companies
00:10:12.480 where their board members own the companies.
00:10:15.240 And there was a senior government official in the room for every single one of those decisions.
00:10:20.000 So instead of fixing the problem and trying to save the fund, the government's basically
00:10:23.360 admitted, yeah, there was a ton of corruption.
00:10:25.200 We don't know what to do.
00:10:26.460 They've taken the fund and rolled it into somewhere else, which means they're probably
00:10:29.640 going to fire the board members, get rid of all the evidence, and try to dump it as fast
00:10:33.040 as possible, which is why we conservatives have successfully passed the motion calling
00:10:36.800 for all of the documents to be released and provided to parliament and then referred to
00:10:40.520 the RCMP as well.
00:10:41.900 Like, things like that, this is an obvious example of corruption.
00:10:44.620 A billion dollar fund, 123, openly given corruptly.
00:10:48.280 But then in the details in the AGU report, it shows up to $400 million.
00:10:52.340 There was a possible conflict of interest or an undeclared conflict of interest.
00:10:56.920 So possibly $400 million out of a $1 billion fund was corruptly given out to companies the
00:11:03.960 board members own.
00:11:04.860 And these board members were all appointed by the Liberals.
00:11:07.020 The chair was handpicked, Anne Vercheren, handpicked in three days by the Liberals, replacing Jim
00:11:14.300 Belsillie, who many Canadians know.
00:11:16.420 And he has a track record that is pretty clean running this fund because even the AG agreed
00:11:22.720 with him.
00:11:23.140 Like, it's textbook liberal corruption, textbook liberal arrogance.
00:11:27.580 And only the Liberals could be fighting climate change and their environmental agenda require
00:11:33.040 liberal corruption to get it done.
00:11:34.600 Like, the two go hand in hand when it comes to the Liberals and Justin Trudeau.
00:11:38.180 Well, don't forget the Infrastructure Bank and all the others that haven't actually done
00:11:41.700 anything.
00:11:41.780 The Auditor General's done a lot of work this year on liberal corruption.
00:11:46.380 She did a report on the green subsidies where they found $7.4 billion had gone out the door
00:11:53.600 without any due diligence, without even seeing if the companies actually were eligible for
00:11:58.680 the subsidy, and then without ever seeing if there was going to be any carbon reduction from
00:12:04.000 the $7.4 billion.
00:12:05.800 Her report on ArriveCan, she commented, was the worst record keeping she'd ever seen in
00:12:12.740 all government work, period.
00:12:16.040 And then again with McKinsey, she very clearly points out, you know, rules were violated.
00:12:21.780 Rules changed just to accommodate liberal friendly McKinsey.
00:12:27.280 $120 million went out the door to McKinsey, $60 million with ArriveCan, hundreds of millions
00:12:34.720 with the green slush fund.
00:12:36.020 And every time you think it can't get worse with corruption with the Liberals, along they
00:12:40.200 come saying, hold my beer, here's a new one.
00:12:43.000 And they outperformed my expectations this year with their level of ineptness and corruption.
00:12:50.480 So, and that's our bad of the year.
00:12:52.620 That's bad.
00:12:53.120 Yeah, it just keeps getting worse.
00:12:54.780 But they just don't seem to care.
00:12:56.460 No.
00:12:56.800 They just don't seem to care.
00:12:58.220 It's unbelievable.
00:12:59.740 All right.
00:13:00.140 The ugly.
00:13:01.020 The ugly housing.
00:13:02.660 The housing crisis in the country.
00:13:04.260 The realtor.ca just came out with information rent has now gone up 9% from May over last
00:13:12.540 year.
00:13:13.540 Across the country, even Edmonton, the Prairie provinces, which have been spared so far from
00:13:19.460 the rent crisis, we're seeing 16% increase in Saskatoon, 15% in Edmonton.
00:13:26.660 And then on the housing front, obviously the pricing is insane.
00:13:30.040 But CMHC, the Canada Mortgage and Housing, has come out with some statistics that almost
00:13:36.700 half of all mortgages are coming up for renewal this year, 2024 and 2025.
00:13:44.180 We're going to see huge rate hikes.
00:13:45.980 They're predicting $15 billion in added interest payments.
00:13:51.120 Wow.
00:13:51.420 That's $15 billion.
00:13:53.100 That's incredible.
00:13:54.540 Taking away from spending power.
00:13:57.560 And food bank usage is at the highest rate ever.
00:14:00.040 Two million people visiting a food bank.
00:14:02.980 What they're saying is CMHC has said it's going to be a 5% hit to the average Canadian
00:14:09.420 pocketbook who has an outstanding mortgage.
00:14:12.340 So literally just 5% of your spending power before all Trudeau's inflation, before carbon
00:14:18.820 tax increases, 5% just from your mortgage wiped out of your available spending.
00:14:24.500 That's if you have a mortgage.
00:14:25.580 A lot of young people can't afford to even get the down payment.
00:14:28.580 And so if you look at wage growth increase, it's not keeping up.
00:14:32.440 So if you go back to 2015 and you go to last year in September, you had a 24.4% real wage
00:14:38.860 growth increase during that time.
00:14:40.840 But housing prices have way more than doubled.
00:14:43.280 So your down payment is double what it used to be.
00:14:45.600 For that average price home, this is not for every single situation.
00:14:49.260 Which means that for the vast majority of people, if your wages went up in real terms by a quarter,
00:14:53.400 let's say, just give it a quarter, but the housing doubled, you're not saving fast enough
00:14:58.340 to get a down payment to purchase a home.
00:15:00.260 So you're not getting a mortgage, which means you're renting and rent is up.
00:15:03.080 Like I'm a renter and my rent went about 15% in Calgary.
00:15:07.500 And Calgary rent is going up pretty fast right now because a lot of people have moved to Calgary
00:15:12.160 because the economy is better than other parts of the country.
00:15:14.920 Housing is still more affordable than other parts, maybe not as much as Edmonton,
00:15:17.900 but it is still better.
00:15:20.100 But in Vancouver, I meet people who are telling me they're paying like $3,500 for a one bedroom.
00:15:24.920 I went to one family.
00:15:25.980 They're paying $6,000 a month for like the first floor of a house.
00:15:32.740 That's an incredible amount of money that you could be using for a down payment.
00:15:35.820 You can never get ahead.
00:15:36.820 Yeah, you can.
00:15:37.220 At that point, you never get ahead.
00:15:37.900 You can.
00:15:38.140 So you're on the treadmill.
00:15:39.160 And again, it goes back, it's reflecting the pulse, but that is ugly.
00:15:42.840 It's an ugly situation when you destroy people's hope that their lives can get better
00:15:47.480 because the promise in Canada, and Pierre-Paul says this all the time,
00:15:51.460 the promise was study hard.
00:15:53.380 You then get a decent job, you know, like the working class gets a job.
00:15:57.920 And then you go and you purchase your first starter home or you purchase a duplex.
00:16:03.060 I lived in a duplex most of my life.
00:16:04.860 Or you get that first condo and then you get onto, you know, the real estate treadmill
00:16:09.500 and you work your way up into the home that you aspire to be in
00:16:13.820 or in the community that you aspire to be in.
00:16:16.040 Like those aspirations for a lot of younger people, they are gone.
00:16:19.100 Oh, yeah.
00:16:19.320 It's wiped out.
00:16:20.320 It's hard out there.
00:16:21.580 And you can see it when you're door knocking.
00:16:23.640 You see people telling us.
00:16:25.240 I've heard this time and time before.
00:16:26.640 They move back in with their parents or their parents are moving in with the kids.
00:16:30.560 And now you have more multi-generational households than you've had before.
00:16:34.200 Not because of choice, but because they have no choice.
00:16:37.300 Groceries are up.
00:16:38.080 Heating is up.
00:16:39.020 You have the carbon tax everywhere across the economy,
00:16:41.560 which is increasing your cost of living monthly.
00:16:44.760 And yeah, it is an ugly situation, economy.
00:16:47.000 And people are right to be angry.
00:16:48.800 There's only one person to blame.
00:16:50.160 You just turn around who's been in charge for the last nine years.
00:16:52.720 Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, thanks to Jagmeet Singh and the NDP
00:16:56.060 who sold out in order for him to keep his pension.
00:16:59.080 Like that's, it's obvious what they've done.
00:17:01.200 They're going to hold hostage the entire Canadian population.
00:17:04.700 They won't have an election until October of 2025.
00:17:06.660 And again, it's reflected in the polls and they're ignoring the polls
00:17:10.480 and the will of Canadians.
00:17:10.980 Because they're not affected by it.
00:17:12.080 No, they're not.
00:17:12.520 They're not affected by it.
00:17:13.100 Either of them are.
00:17:13.940 No, exactly.
00:17:14.880 No, the numbers are truly ugly.
00:17:17.000 Yeah.
00:17:17.680 We looked at it from, I think the average rent in 2015
00:17:20.520 when Trudeau took over was $966 for one bedroom.
00:17:23.700 Now it's $2,200.
00:17:26.040 Even accounting for inflation, rent has outgrown like 28%
00:17:30.940 on top of inflation, on top of all the record inflation.
00:17:33.760 And Trudeau recently commented that, well, housing prices cannot come down
00:17:38.980 because they have to protect the asset value of those who own a home.
00:17:42.640 But we have to create more lower price housing.
00:17:45.620 But it's like, well, we can't have housing prices drop,
00:17:48.040 but we have to have lower housing prices.
00:17:51.080 He's clueless as to the pain he's inflicted.
00:17:54.220 Clueless on how to address it.
00:17:57.000 Throw billions of dollars in spending and prices just keep going up.
00:18:01.220 And inability to understand that the high spending,
00:18:05.380 the inflationary spending, is forcing up interest rates,
00:18:08.520 which is punishing Canadians.
00:18:11.280 And the only hope we're going to have is to get that spending down,
00:18:14.600 get inflation down, bring our mortgage rates down.
00:18:17.840 And they've spent a lot of money, like $93, $94 billion.
00:18:21.360 They keep claiming.
00:18:22.000 They're getting better.
00:18:22.560 Yeah.
00:18:22.900 They're not getting better.
00:18:23.660 It's rare to find a government has spent so much money and achieved so little,
00:18:28.080 except for doubling housing prices, doubling rents.
00:18:30.880 Like we're approaching now debt servicing costs,
00:18:33.580 where the federal government is at $54.1 billion annually,
00:18:38.240 which is more than we send to the provinces to partially pay for health care.
00:18:42.980 It's double what we spend on national defense.
00:18:45.600 Every single deficit budget this government pushes forward
00:18:48.720 is going to continue to drive up asset prices.
00:18:51.060 It's also pushing out the private sector.
00:18:53.400 And then if people need to, like, are trying to figure out,
00:18:55.700 like, where is all this inflation coming from?
00:18:57.520 It's not supply chains.
00:18:58.840 Nope.
00:18:59.160 It's the government.
00:18:59.800 We build homes out of, like, you know, concrete,
00:19:02.160 which we have ample of in this country.
00:19:03.900 We have lots of land.
00:19:05.120 We have lots of materials to build homes with.
00:19:07.860 It's the federal government, which is continuously overspending.
00:19:11.380 That overspending leads to higher asset prices
00:19:13.460 because those dollars are chasing fewer goods, fewer services.
00:19:16.100 Like, it's an unvirtuous circle that we're in right now,
00:19:20.220 and the government doesn't want to get out of it.
00:19:21.700 They're just going to keep feeding this thing.
00:19:23.120 And we're spending, like, billions.
00:19:23.900 And what was the slogan we got elected in 2015?
00:19:26.200 It was something about the middle class and those working hard to join the middle class.
00:19:29.640 He's completely decimated the middle class.
00:19:31.620 What we end up now is Trudeau towns and those working hard not to be in,
00:19:35.880 those homeless encampments.
00:19:38.360 Vancouver, it's up one-third.
00:19:39.860 It was bad before, up one-third in the last couple years,
00:19:43.200 256 homeless encampments in Toronto, 50, 60 in Halifax for the housing minister.
00:19:51.600 The housing minister, per capita, oversees the worst level of homelessness encampments
00:19:59.000 in the country, and their solution is spend more, achieve less.
00:20:03.040 Another government program.
00:20:03.780 The spending since 2015, last Harper government.
00:20:07.200 This government is 117% spending more than in 2015.
00:20:13.800 We're approaching now where the increase in spending under Justin Trudeau
00:20:17.280 is more than the entire annual budget of the federal government
00:20:21.520 in the last year of the Harper government.
00:20:23.920 Like, that's just a comparison point.
00:20:27.400 Like, they are spending more now in terms of increase in spending
00:20:31.320 just for government than the Harper government spent total in one year
00:20:36.020 on the government.
00:20:36.960 But nothing's gotten better.
00:20:38.400 Yeah, like, I know the quality of the services haven't gotten better.
00:20:41.400 Like, if your passports are coming to you faster, that's usually a fluke.
00:20:46.080 It's rare for someone to get a passport on time.
00:20:48.580 And all government services have gotten worse.
00:20:50.660 Most of the government is broken at this point.
00:20:52.340 Or it's corruptly being given out to crony friends of liberals.
00:20:55.980 To follow up on that, tax increase, the tax grab from Canadians
00:21:01.620 is up 76% from when Harper was in power.
00:21:05.660 Government's collecting 76% more, taking 76% more tax dollars.
00:21:11.560 And that's power out of the economy, too.
00:21:13.620 And they still can't balance the budget, and they still can't deliver passports.
00:21:18.960 They still cannot get equipment for our military,
00:21:21.260 cannot reimburse our military for food they have to buy overseas.
00:21:24.360 And now they want to create new programs that government, feds have never been involved in.
00:21:28.880 They're going to jurisdictions.
00:21:30.540 They have no clue what they're doing.
00:21:31.760 That's right, yeah.
00:21:32.500 And that's what causes the ugliness in the economy.
00:21:35.080 And the economy is people trying to get jobs and get by every single month.
00:21:38.560 And if you're going out, you're seeing the price of homes way up.
00:21:42.140 Your rent is going up or really high because you're trying to move up,
00:21:45.620 and your groceries are expensive.
00:21:47.380 Your insurance is coming in for renewal, and it's higher than it was before.
00:21:50.400 Like, go right back to Justin Trudeau and the liberal decisions made over the last nine years.
00:21:55.980 Every single one of those led to this moment today to lead to these higher prices.
00:22:00.660 And you can thank Jagmeet Singh as well because he's been voting along with the liberals every single step of the way.
00:22:05.340 Every single time.
00:22:05.660 Sell out the thing.
00:22:06.280 See, you can see why it's easy to come up with a bad and ugly every single week.
00:22:11.480 We've got five or six, you know, one and then five or six runner-ups,
00:22:15.740 and then we fight to try to find a good out of the Trudeau Singh government days in Ottawa.
00:22:22.980 Well, we've covered the topic, so thank you very much, gentlemen.
00:22:25.740 The guests always get the last words.
00:22:27.340 I, though, will say I'm looking forward to the summer to meeting constituents
00:22:30.500 and going out to other communities in BC especially to meet as many people
00:22:35.680 who are regretting their choices in the past, voting liberal,
00:22:38.560 and then also looking forward to actually having regular water again in Calgary
00:22:41.720 because we can't have nice things with a left-wing council, a left-wing mayor.
00:22:45.520 Someday we'll have water back in time for Stampede.
00:22:47.920 Let's hope so.
00:22:49.080 Thank you very much, gentlemen.
00:22:50.420 Appreciate your time.
00:22:51.300 Always a pleasure.
00:22:51.980 Always a pleasure.
00:22:52.800 Kelly McCauley, member of Parliament for Edmonton West.
00:22:56.260 Edmonton Mall.
00:22:56.980 Also, Tom Kamich, member of Parliament of Calgary.
00:22:59.360 Shepard, appreciate your time, gentlemen.
00:23:01.180 Thank you for yours as well.
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