Western Standard - November 18, 2023


Conservative Demands for Trudeau's Mini Budget

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Justin Trudeau's policies
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Justin Trudeau
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6 minutes

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144.76

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929

Sentence count

68

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1

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Learn English with Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has added over $600 billion of inflationary debt, more debt than all previous prime ministers combined, and interest rates are now rising faster than at any time in Canadian monetary history. He's flooded our economy with easy money which has bid up the cost of the goods we buy and the interest we pay. On top of that, he's brought in a massive carbon tax on gas, heat, and everything that is transported by truck. The consequences have been devastating.

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00:00:00.000 After eight years, Justin Trudeau is not worth the cost.
00:00:06.120 He's added over $600 billion of inflationary debt,
00:00:10.540 more debt than all prior prime ministers combined, doubling our debt.
00:00:15.040 He's flooded our economy with easy money,
00:00:17.460 which has bid up the cost of the goods we buy and the interest we pay.
00:00:21.320 On top of that, he's brought in a massive carbon tax on gas, heat,
00:00:26.220 and everything that is transported by truck.
00:00:28.740 Look, the consequences have been devastating.
00:00:32.940 Trudeau has given us the worst inflation of any prime minister since his dad 40 years ago,
00:00:39.160 and interest rates are now rising faster than at any time in Canadian monetary history.
00:00:45.800 These are not just numbers.
00:00:49.200 These are humans' lives that Justin Trudeau is screwing up.
00:00:53.860 Two million people forced to go to a food bank in a single month.
00:00:58.740 A record-smashing number.
00:01:01.880 Because the average mortgage payment is up over 150%, people are losing their homes.
00:01:09.140 And because more and more people are incapable of buying homes due to these high prices,
00:01:13.520 they're all clamoring to compete for a diminished supply of apartments,
00:01:17.020 driving the rent up to record levels.
00:01:19.340 Last month, yet another record rent increase after Trudeau promised to bring rent down.
00:01:25.640 This is forcing middle-class people into homelessness.
00:01:29.020 We've never had middle-class homeless crisis like that we do now today.
00:01:35.280 We're talking about nurses and carpenters who live in their cars. 0.95
00:01:40.780 This would have been unimaginable before Justin Trudeau,
00:01:44.080 as would the tent cities we now see in every major town in our country.
00:01:51.220 We learned the other day that Halifax has 30 homeless encampments.
00:01:57.100 One city with 30 homeless encampments.
00:02:02.220 We would never have even imagined something like that could happen in Canada before Justin Trudeau.
00:02:09.200 Yet, these are the consequences of his policies,
00:02:13.640 which tax, print, and borrow money, driving up the cost on everybody.
00:02:21.140 It's very simple.
00:02:22.820 The government is rich and the people are poor.
00:02:26.780 After eight years of Justin Trudeau.
00:02:30.020 And what does he do with the money?
00:02:32.340 He spent $54 million on a Rive can app we didn't need, didn't work,
00:02:36.900 and could have been designed in a weekend by a couple of IT experts.
00:02:41.040 It's now under criminal investigation.
00:02:43.480 He blew a billion dollars on a so-called Green Fund,
00:02:48.140 whose bureaucrats now admit it's more like the sponsorship scandal.
00:02:52.060 The chair of the fund gave her own company $200,000 in grants.
00:02:57.460 That, too, is under investigation.
00:02:59.480 And now we learn that his multi-billion dollar grants to foreign companies
00:03:07.380 may be funding as many as 1,500 jobs that won't be going to Canadians,
00:03:14.620 but instead to temporary foreign workers.
00:03:19.240 The Polly of government will make sure that every time the government supports jobs in Canada,
00:03:24.140 it will be exclusively for Canadians.
00:03:26.740 Now, the fall economic update is coming.
00:03:31.400 Justin Trudeau must reverse the inflationary policies
00:03:35.280 that have driven people out of their homes,
00:03:38.380 driven interest rates up, and cause mass despair and misery.
00:03:42.660 So our specific demands are as follows.
00:03:45.580 One, we're calling on Trudeau to cancel his planned quadrupling of the carbon tax.
00:03:51.940 You heard that right.
00:03:53.020 Trudeau plans to quadruple the carbon tax.
00:03:55.840 I will axe the tax.
00:03:58.600 But in the meantime,
00:04:00.720 until such time as we can have a carbon tax election
00:04:03.840 that I will win,
00:04:06.840 I propose a compromise.
00:04:09.100 No more hikes.
00:04:11.800 Don't quadruple the tax, Mr. Trudeau.
00:04:14.620 People can't afford it.
00:04:16.160 Two, bring down interest rates and inflation by balancing the budget.
00:04:24.040 A year ago, Mr. Trudeau had promised a balanced budget by the year 2028.
00:04:28.800 Six months later, he announced he was breaking that promise.
00:04:31.920 And all the extra spending that he piled on in this subsequent period
00:04:35.420 has caused inflation to start rising again,
00:04:38.200 forcing the Bank of Canada to keep interest rates high.
00:04:40.720 We have $900 billion of mortgages set to renew into these higher rates over the next three years.
00:04:46.780 We have an emergency on our hands to bring rates down before those mortgages renew.
00:04:52.180 So I'm calling on Justin Trudeau to balance the budget so that we can bring down inflation and interest rates.
00:04:59.520 Finally, my third demand is for the government to adopt my plan to build homes, not bureaucracy.
00:05:08.100 Justin Trudeau has a gigantic photo op fund where he sends his minister on a traveling circus,
00:05:14.000 giving out grants to local politicians in exchange for them giving him credit for housing that was already going to be built.
00:05:21.800 The evidence is that this fund is not building any new homes
00:05:24.760 because housing starts are actually down since the program came into place.
00:05:30.300 What's happening is the money is going to build more bureaucracy.
00:05:33.320 We don't need more bureaucracy.
00:05:35.540 We need a simple mathematical formula that incentivizes cities to get out of the way,
00:05:39.520 speed up permits, free up land to build, build, build.
00:05:42.400 Let's require municipalities permit 15% more home building per year, every year, in order to get federal money.
00:05:50.740 Those that beat the target should get a bonus.
00:05:52.360 Those that miss it should get a fine.
00:05:55.580 This incentive will clear the way and speed up permits so that we can build, build, build.
00:06:00.440 After eight years of Trudeau, we have the fewest homes per capita in the G7,
00:06:04.340 even though we have the most land to build on.
00:06:07.480 Let's get building now so that our youth, our working class, and our newcomers can put roof overhead. 0.99
00:06:15.600 This is common sense.
00:06:17.300 The common sense of the common people united for our common home.
00:06:20.460 Your home, my home, our home.
00:06:23.440 Let's bring it home.
00:06:24.620 Thank you.