Western Standard - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre responds

Justin Trudeau is in total panic mode. After eight years of telling Canadians they had to pay higher carbon taxes on gas, heat, and groceries, he admitted that his carbon tax is not worth the cost of heat. Now what caused this sudden press conference that he cobbled together on Parliament Hill with little notice? Was it because he was concerned at the 78% increase in food bank use under his watch? No. It wasn t because he worried that 1.9 million visits had to happen in a single month to food banks because Canadians could not feed themselves after 8 years of his leadership.

00:00:00.000 Justin Trudeau is in total panic mode.

00:00:06.040 After eight years of telling Canadians they had to pay higher carbon taxes on gas, heat, and groceries,

00:00:16.260 he admitted that his carbon tax is not worth the cost of heat.

00:00:21.980 Now what caused this sudden press conference that he cobbled together on Parliament Hill with little notice

00:00:29.980 was it because he was concerned at the 78% increase in food bank use under his watch?

00:00:39.180 No.

00:00:40.060 Was it because he worried that 1.9 million visits had to happen in a single month to food banks

00:00:46.380 because Canadians could not feed themselves after eight years of his leadership?

00:00:51.180 No.

00:00:52.340 Was it because he's worried that scurvy is making a comeback after eight years of his government's taxes and inflationary policies?

00:01:02.520 No, that didn't worry him either.

00:01:03.600 Was it because he was worried that he doubled the cost of housing

00:01:06.200 or that these homeless encampments are becoming common right across the country?

00:01:11.500 That wasn't his concern either.

00:01:14.640 What caused Justin Trudeau to freak out yesterday and hold a sudden press conference

00:01:21.100 to announce that he was going to pause the carbon tax on home heating oil?

00:01:29.680 The answer is that he was plummeting in the polls

00:01:33.020 and Pierre Polyab was holding massive rallies in Liberal-held ridings to axe the tax.

00:01:40.620 Because Justin Trudeau is not worried about the cost of living.

00:01:44.680 He's worried about the cost of votes.

00:01:47.440 And that's what caused his panicked flip-flop yesterday.

00:01:51.500 Yesterday was the one-year anniversary that Liberal MPs,

00:01:55.080 including Liberal MPs from Newfoundland and Labrador,

00:01:58.580 voted to keep taxes on home heating oil.

00:02:03.800 But what does this announcement really mean?

00:02:05.500 Well, one, Trudeau and the Liberals are still going to go ahead

00:02:11.460 with a carbon tax on your gas and groceries,

00:02:15.240 a tax they plan to quadruple to $0.61 a liter.

00:02:21.580 Two, Justin Trudeau announced yesterday that if you re-elect him,

00:02:25.740 he will put the tax back on your home heating oil.

00:02:29.040 Three, he says, don't worry, he'll send you $11 more in the mail.

00:02:34.100 Well, $11.

00:02:37.760 These days, that's a few cups of coffee.

00:02:41.720 Who's going to feed themselves on $11

00:02:43.620 while he drives up the cost of the gas and diesel that you put in your car,

00:02:50.880 the fuel that goes into the boats of our fishermen

00:02:56.380 and into the tractors of our farmers,

00:03:00.120 which will drive up the cost of all the food we bring home?

00:03:04.940 That's what you're voting for if you keep Justin Trudeau

00:03:08.040 or the local Atlantic Canadian Liberals elected.

00:03:11.260 A $0.61 a liter carbon tax

00:03:16.180 that will force our seniors to cut back on meals and go hungry.

00:03:23.240 It'll mean more malnutrition.

00:03:25.980 It'll mean hundreds of thousands more Canadians jamming into food banks. 0.94

00:03:30.680 Lineups at food banks,

00:03:32.820 they look like bread lines from the Great Depression

00:03:35.740 after eight years of Justin Trudeau.

00:03:38.820 But he's not done yet.

00:03:41.060 So my message to Atlantic Canadians and all Canadians,

00:03:44.840 don't be fooled by Justin Trudeau's latest panic maneuver.

00:03:50.700 He still plans to hit you with a $0.61 a liter carbon tax,

00:03:54.960 and every single Liberal MP is responsible for making that tax apply.

00:04:01.900 And finally, what about all the other Canadians

00:04:04.840 who don't use home-eating oil but use gas?

00:04:08.180 Gas, which ironically has lower greenhouse gas emissions,

00:04:13.000 will still pay the carbon tax.

00:04:15.480 So working-class people in the suburbs of Ontario,

00:04:19.920 the prairies, and British Columbia

00:04:22.300 who heat with natural gas

00:04:24.940 will be cold and broke

00:04:29.260 because of Justin Trudeau and his carbon tax.

00:04:33.420 He's excluding, he doesn't care about them

00:04:35.580 because he's making political calculations.

00:04:38.820 This is not about environmental science.

00:04:41.120 It's about political science.

00:04:43.260 The good news is that life wasn't like this before Justin Trudeau,

00:04:46.900 and it won't be like this after he's gone.

00:04:49.660 Common-sense conservatives are going to turn the hurt

00:04:51.880 that he's caused into the hope that Canadians need.

00:04:55.120 Pierre Polyev and the common-sense conservatives

00:04:57.360 will axe the Trudeau tax entirely and forever.

00:05:02.260 There will be no flip-flopping.

00:05:04.660 There will be no turns of corners.

00:05:06.840 There will be no little targeted exemptions here

00:05:11.160 or gimmicks there.

00:05:13.840 We will axe the Trudeau tax completely.

00:05:16.280 And we will bring home more powerful paychecks

00:05:19.660 with lower income taxes that reward hard work

00:05:22.120 by approving natural resource projects

00:05:25.480 to bring Newfoundland and Labrador's oil and gas sector

00:05:29.500 roaring back to life

00:05:30.940 so that we can replace the overseas oils

00:05:33.660 we're bringing in with clean Canadian energy.

00:05:36.320 We'll approve natural gas liquefaction projects

00:05:39.440 so that we can turn dollars for dictators

00:05:41.560 into paychecks for our people.

00:05:44.080 We'll incentivize cities to speed up

00:05:46.020 and lower the cost of building permits

00:05:47.580 to build, build, build homes that Canadians can afford.

00:05:52.080 We'll bring home safety with jail and not bail

00:05:54.320 for repeat violent offenders.

00:05:56.080 Treatment and not more tax-funded drugs for addicts.

00:06:00.220 We will bring home safety by sealing our borders 0.90

00:06:04.200 against illegal gun smuggled from the United States.

00:06:06.640 and we will respect law-abiding and licensed

00:06:09.380 sports shooters and hunters

00:06:10.700 and end Justin Trudeau's harassment of them.

00:06:13.700 All in all, we can sum it up in two words.

00:06:18.180 Common sense.

00:06:19.640 The common sense of the common people

00:06:21.380 united for our common home.

00:06:23.320 Your home, my home, our home.

00:06:26.580 Let's bring it home.

00:06:27.280 The common sense of the common sense of

00:06:40.500 the保身, your home is feeling

00:06:42.500 for many reasons for the dead people weendra is

00:06:43.060 keeping you short and long seeing those

00:06:45.020 that have been specialized invent graombains.

00:06:46.420 Through the lonely areas,

00:06:46.920 the common sense of the common sense of

00:06:49.440 that you might otherwise expect

00:06:50.580 and feel as views for the future.

00:06:52.580 Let's bring it back where you're

00:06:54.900 política and you're inside Hours.

Western Standard - October 27, 2023

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre responds

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