Western Standard - December 07, 2023


MPs Prepared To Use Amendments

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Justin Trudeau Merry Christmas
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5 minutes

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140.04

Word count

724

Sentence count

50

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Justin Trudeau has ruined Christmas for Canadians, and now he wants to take the tax off farmers and truckers who bring us our food. Merry Christmas, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. You've ruined Christmas, now what will you do about it?

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00:00:00.000 Merry Christmas everybody. Merry Christmas. Are we still allowed to say Merry Christmas
00:00:04.800 in Justin Trudeau's Canada? I can tell you conservatives will always loudly and proudly
00:00:10.180 wish everyone a Merry Christmas, even though for many people this Christmas will not be
00:00:17.580 very merry at all. After eight years of Justin Trudeau, people wonder how they'll put food
00:00:24.660 on the table. Our children write Santa Claus letters asking not for toys or vacations,
00:00:31.340 but just for snow boots and food for their families. Parents stay up late at night, worried
00:00:38.000 how they will keep their homes after rent prices are rising for the first time in Canadian recorded
00:00:44.860 history faster than wages. That has never happened before. The cost of the average mortgage has
00:00:52.080 more than doubled. The cost of a needed down payment for a new home doubled. Rent has doubled.
00:00:59.440 The last two months have been the fastest recorded increases in rent in Canadian history. Yesterday,
00:01:07.980 Justin Trudeau's own housing agency was asked if the government has a plan to close the 3.5
00:01:15.080 million home gap in our housing supply. And they answered no. This was not an opposition MP accusing
00:01:23.320 the government of not having a plan. This was Justin Trudeau's own housing agency. After eight years,
00:01:30.200 as though he hasn't had time to come up with a plan. So far, his only plan has been to massively
00:01:37.480 inflate the cost of housing with relentless and irresponsible money printing
00:01:41.720 housing that floods our financial systems, profits the big corporations, and doubles housing costs,
00:01:48.520 while he inflates the bureaucracy that block home building. He's since come up with a housing
00:01:53.800 accelerator plan, $4 billion. And where is the money going? To build more local bureaucracies to block
00:02:00.680 more homes. And while Canadians can't afford their rent or even dream of buying a home,
00:02:09.400 now they worry they won't be able to feed their families at all. Justin Trudeau has presided over
00:02:14.600 the doubling of food bank use in Toronto. Nationwide, two million visits, a record-smashing number of
00:02:22.040 people lined up in one month to go to food banks. In our major cities, these lineups go block after block.
00:02:31.400 If the imagery were put in black and white, you would assume it was historical reels from the Great
00:02:36.360 Depression. Canadians are seeing a resurgence of things like scurvy, diseases that had been defeated.
00:02:42.760 Why? Because Canadians have downgraded their diets. They pay more for smaller and smaller 0.99
00:02:50.040 portions that they buy at their grocery stores. There are now 30 homeless encampments in Halifax alone.
00:02:58.040 We never would have imagined these homeless encampments. And they're increasingly filled
00:03:02.520 with people who have jobs. We have nurses who live in vans and carpenters who live in parking lots.
00:03:10.120 That is the Christmas that Justin Trudeau has brought us after eight years.
00:03:15.160 And what is his plan now? His solution? To quadruple the carbon tax. Not just on the gas
00:03:23.240 that you put in your car or the heat that warms your home, but on the farmers and the truckers who
00:03:29.400 bring us our food. Yesterday, after manipulation and intimidation by Justin Trudeau, Liberal senators
00:03:38.600 voted to gut a common-sense conservative bill that would have taken the tax off of our farmers.
00:03:47.400 Just in time for Christmas, Justin Trudeau has ensured that your turkey dinner will have a big,
00:03:56.040 fat, growing carbon tax caked on top of it. That is not part of the recipe for turkey dinner that
00:04:04.520 Canadians were looking for. But yet, late yesterday, there were those Liberal senators who had received
00:04:10.840 personal calls from Justin Trudeau. Intimidating calls from a Prime Minister who claimed that he
00:04:16.440 would respect the independence of the Senate. Has now stepped in to make sure not only that
00:04:22.600 Canadians continue to pay the tax, but that it goes higher and higher still. Well, I've got news for
00:04:28.200 Justin Trudeau. You've ruined Christmas for Canadians. Common-sense conservatives are going
00:04:35.400 to ruin your vacation as well. We are going to put in thousands of amendments at Committee and in the
00:04:40.520 House of Commons, forcing all-night, round-the-clock voting to block your $20 billion of inflationary
00:04:47.800 spending and the rest of your economically destructive plans until you agree to our demand to take the tax off
00:04:55.160 farmers, First Nations and families. You will have no rest until the tax is gone.