Learn English with Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a speech on the need for a carbon tax in Canada, and why it s time to bring it home, at the federal election on Oct. 19, 2019.
00:00:18.060Crime had just fallen 25 percent so that small-town folks could leave their doors on locks.
00:00:24.000Our borders were secure and our immigration system was uncontroversial.
00:00:28.240Everyone agreed it worked and was the best in the world.
00:00:31.440Housing costs half of what it does today.
00:00:34.340The average rent was $950, an almost laughably low number by today's standards.
00:00:41.260Take-home pay had risen by 10 percent after tax and after inflation in the preceding years.
00:00:48.680The New York Times had just called Canada the richest middle class.
00:00:53.280In fact, they said that Canada's middle class was richer for the first time than America's.
00:00:57.920This, with lots of trouble in the world, wars in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and, yes, Ukraine, none of which caused inflation here at home.
00:01:07.920At the time, of course, we had Prime Minister Harper, who was able to keep inflation and unemployment low, even while the world suffered turmoil.
00:01:16.380But now you've awoken, eight years later, to find a completely different place.
00:01:20.900Inflation, after hitting a 40-year high, is still 50 percent higher than its 2 percent target.
00:01:27.340The economy is shrinking in per capita terms.
00:01:30.240It's smaller than it was six years ago, perhaps the first time that has ever happened in Canadian history.
00:01:35.240Canada is expected to have the worst OECD growth out of 40 countries for the next five and a half years and the next 35 years.
00:01:44.680It now takes 25 years to save up for a down payment for a mortgage in Toronto.
00:01:49.800And many people have had their existing mortgages extended to 90 years and 120 years, meaning their great-grandchildren will still be paying it off.
00:01:58.700Houses in Canada now cost 50 percent more than in the United States.
00:02:02.960You can buy a castle in Sweden for a lower cost than it is for a two-bedroom in Kitchener.
00:02:12.440Toronto is the worst housing bubble in the world.
00:02:14.780Vancouver, the third most expensive when comparing median income to medium housing prices.
00:02:20.680This is the nightmare that would have been unimaginable to you had you fallen into that coma and just awoken now.
00:02:28.880You don't want to fall back in the coma because the best is yet to come.
00:02:32.360We now have a common-sense conservative alternative that will axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget, and stop the crime.
00:02:41.020We call on the Prime Minister to meet the Premiers and talk to him about their desire to see the tax cut or eliminated altogether.
00:02:48.980Let us grant relief to our people now until there can be a carbon tax election, where the people of this country will restore the common-sense consensus that will allow anyone from anywhere to do anything that their birthright is.
00:03:02.520That with hard work, you can afford a good home and good food in a safe neighborhood, in the country we love, in this, all of our homes, your home, my home, our home, let's bring it home.