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