Western Standard - NDP Leader Singh Accuses Trudeau and Poilievre of Enabling Corporate Exploitation

00:00:00.000 we just went to shop here at the loblaws i'm going to show you what we bought we bought two items

00:00:05.280 a bag of onions for eight dollars this bag here nothing special just red onions eight dollars

00:00:12.800 that's almost over a dollar per onion the next item we bought was formula maybe formula something

00:00:21.600 is very essential on sale this is over fifty dollars two items sixty dollars essentials for

00:00:30.160 families the reality is you know this when you go into a grocery store and you're paying more than

00:00:37.360 ever before and getting less than ever before you know on the other side of that you're getting

00:00:42.080 ripped off you're getting ripped off because the rules have been written by jesse trudeau and pierre

00:00:48.080 polyev by liberals and conservatives to allow rich ceos to rip off canadians and i know you feel

00:00:54.480 that you're right this is not your fault you're working harder than ever before but you feel like

00:00:59.920 you're falling behind more than ever before and it's because the dac the deck is stacked against you

00:01:06.240 the scales are are against you you've got all the power in the hands of corporations and ceos that

00:01:13.600 can rip you off and families are feeling the price they're feeling the squeeze

00:01:18.240 we want to change that we want to change the rules to put people first one example of how the rules

00:01:24.320 are stacked against you how the scale is is so shifted against you is behind me we're at lobless

00:01:31.040 when we went shopping one of the largest corporate grocery stores in canada they just we just found out

00:01:36.320 that there was a lawsuit a a class action where a settlement of 500 million dollars was made in the

00:01:42.960 bread price fixing scandal but what does that actually mean well first of all large corporate

00:01:49.360 grocery stores like loblaws and big bread producers like canada bread colluded worked together to jack up

00:01:55.840 the price of bread ripping off canadians they were allowed to do that because it was not against the law

00:02:01.760 at the time the the laws allowed that to happen for so long they weren't investigated they weren't stopped

00:02:07.280 so they were allowed to rip off canadians you want to know how much canadians were ripped off to the

00:02:12.800 tune of five billion dollars the rules written by justin trudeau and pierre pauliev and their parties

00:02:20.160 allowed uh the the penalty for doing that the biggest penalty that was levied was for canada bread

00:02:25.520 company was 50 million dollars that's like if someone steals 50 from you and you only get back five cents

00:02:32.400 that is ridiculous and it is ridiculous that people that citizens have to fight in court to get justice

00:02:40.880 that is not the way things should work the rules should be there to protect canadians but the rules

00:02:45.520 written by liberals and conservatives by justin trudeau and pierre pauliev have allowed big corporations

00:02:50.000 to rip you off and there is no real penalties we want to change that we want severe sanctions severe

00:02:56.320 penalties if a corporation rips you off and they make a benefit like in this case of five billion dollars

00:03:02.400 then we should be able to impose triple the benefit that they made as a penalty 15 billion dollars

00:03:07.760 of fines would really deter these companies from ripping you off that's what we're talking about

00:03:12.640 we want to change the rules so that we impose a price cap on food essentials these companies are

00:03:17.760 making record profits they should not be able to rip off canadians so we're saying is justin trudeau and

00:03:24.320 you both have failed when pierre pauliev was in power when conservatives in power that's when the bread

00:03:29.440 price fixings he handled was happening and justin trudeau has seen it through and hasn't done

00:03:34.000 anything to increase the penalties for these corporations that when they rip you off so we're

00:03:38.560 saying we need to have severe penalties we need a price cap on food essentials we need to make sure

00:03:43.040 people can afford their groceries now justin trudeau had the opportunity he could have done it uh we had

00:03:49.840 to force them we had to force them to bring in changes to make price gouging illegal it wasn't against

00:03:56.800 the law until we forced them to change it that's an example of how we can change the rules but let's

00:04:00.880 be clear about pierre pauliev he wants to throw fuel on the fire of corporate greed he wants to let

00:04:06.480 these corporations rip you off even more and we know why the corporate or the conservative party's

00:04:12.640 director for the conservative party of canada is a lobbyist for the largest corporation in groceries

00:04:18.240 lobless so they're not going to take on their corporate buddies they're not going to stop them

00:04:21.840 from ripping you off but we are we have a plan we want to take on corporate greed and lower the

00:04:26.560 cost of your groceries

Western Standard - July 26, 2024

NDP Leader Singh Accuses Trudeau and Poilievre of Enabling Corporate Exploitation

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