Western Standard - June 03, 2024


Freeland Dismisses Economic Concerns

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Length

1 minute

Words per minute

130.86

Word count

240

Sentence count

20


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Learn English with Honourable Chrystia Mahtani, MP for Assiniboia-Headingley, Canada. She delivers a passionate plea to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to stop talking Canada down, and instead focus on what's going on in the real world.

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00:00:00.000 The Conservatives just can't resist talking Canada down.
00:00:05.100 That's why we are not hearing from them about inflation for four months in a row
00:00:11.060 being within the Bank of Canada's target range,
00:00:14.280 and in April the lowest it has been in three years at 2.7%.
00:00:19.760 That is why we are not hearing from them that last year Canada attracted
00:00:24.660 the most foreign direct investment per capita in the entire G7.
00:00:30.800 The other thing we are not hearing from them is all the programs they are going to cut,
00:00:34.820 starting with the National School Food Program.
00:00:38.120 The Honourable Member from Charles Wood St. James, Assiniboia, Headingley.
00:00:42.100 The fact of the matter is that a Canadian standard of living is declining.
00:00:46.740 In the United States, GDP per capita has grown more than 8% since 2019.
00:00:51.220 Our economy is now underperforming the United States by the widest margin since 1965.
00:00:58.120 Well, under this Prime Minister, his government has grown morbidly obese.
00:01:03.100 More Canadians are visiting food banks than ever before.
00:01:07.560 This is economic malpractice.
00:01:10.120 Why is the Prime Minister spending so much to make Canadians so poor?
00:01:15.440 Thank you.
00:01:17.440 The Honourable Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance.
00:01:21.220 Mr. Speaker, yet again, these Conservatives are relentlessly talking Canada down
00:01:29.060 and concealing their austerity agenda.
00:01:32.880 The reality is Canada has added 1.3 million more jobs than we had before the pandemic.
00:01:42.780 The Canadian economy is 104% the size it was before the pandemic.