Western Standard - June 07, 2023


Gloves off between Trudeau & Poilievre


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3 minutes

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159.00963

Word count

578

Sentence count

32


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Learn English with Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks on the devastating forest fires in Canada and the impact they are having on the economy, and how the Conservative Party continues to stand against climate action to fight climate change.

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00:00:00.000 Mr. Speaker, we don't need another drama performance, because at the end of the day,
00:00:05.460 at the end of the day, when theatrics collides with mathematics, the math always wins.
00:00:13.480 And after eight years of this Prime Minister, the Canadians have a stock of combined debt
00:00:20.120 that is bigger than our entire GDP. In fact, we are the most indebted families of any country
00:00:26.660 in the G7. The IMF says that Canada is the number one at-risk country for mass mortgage
00:00:33.500 defaults. Will he reverse his inflationary and high-interest rate policies before people
00:00:37.840 go broke?
00:00:39.160 The Prime Minister.
00:00:42.000 I've answered this question a few times, but the Leader of the Opposition continues to ask
00:00:45.920 it because he refuses to go outside and see what is actually happening in Canada. Forest
00:00:51.640 fires are raging. It's the worst year on record for forest fires already, but the fact is
00:00:58.100 they are going to get worse in the coming years because climate change is real. And yet the
00:01:04.420 Conservative Party continues to stand against the climate action that we've been taking,
00:01:10.000 stand against the investments that we're making to support families, to support first responders.
00:01:15.620 They continue to stand against help for Canadians who are losing their homes, losing their families,
00:01:20.800 losing their livelihood.
00:01:22.260 The Honourable Leader of the Opposition.
00:01:25.760 Has he really sunk into the low of exploiting these fires for political gain to distract from
00:01:32.000 his inflationary and high-interest rate policies? Is that what it's come to that he's so ashamed
00:01:37.520 of his economic policy and record?
00:01:40.120 I'm going to have to interrupt this because I'm getting noise from both sides. I know you can handle
00:01:45.800 it. You do that well. But what I need to have is I want to hear what's being said, and I'm sure
00:01:51.620 both sides want to hear what's being said. I'm going to ask him to start from the top, please.
00:01:55.960 Mr. Speaker, this Prime Minister has just lowered himself to the worst steps to try and distract
00:02:01.000 from his disastrous economic record. He's now using the forest fires to change the channel. This is
00:02:08.300 even lower than I would have expected from him. Mr. Speaker, Canadians are going to sit down tonight
00:02:13.660 to discuss how they're going to move into a small apartment because they're going to have
00:02:18.240 to give up their homes after his inflationary policies have driven up interest rates on
00:02:24.200 Canadian mortgage holders who have record debt. Will the Prime Minister keep the promise
00:02:29.680 he made six months ago to balance the budget and bring down inflation and interest rates
00:02:33.340 before folks go broke?
00:02:34.400 Mr. Speaker, I've answered that question a dozen times. And for the Leader of the Opposition
00:02:42.180 to consider that the forest fires that are taking people from their communities and destroying
00:02:47.300 their homes are a mere distraction and not top of mind for people from coast to coast to
00:02:52.340 coast is shameful. But the fact of the matter is he doesn't have anything to say about that
00:02:57.720 because he refuses to put forward any real plan to fight against climate change, and he does
00:03:03.300 nothing but fight against our plan to fight climate change. If he has a better plan, let
00:03:08.180 him say it because we've been waiting a long time for it. But he has no plan to fight climate
00:03:12.640 change. He still questions whether it exists while Canada is burning.
00:03:23.260 Ne And he still hasn't done anything...
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