NDP Leader Singh Accuses Trudeau and Poilievre of Enabling Corporate Exploitation
Episode Stats
Words per Minute
182.81938
Summary
The rules written by Justin Trudeau and his party have allowed rich corporations to rip off canadians and rip them off to the tune of 5 billion dollars. We need a price cap on food essentials to make sure people can afford their groceries.
Transcript
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