Western Standard - June 01, 2023


Poilievre takes thinly disguised swipe at Prime Minister’s high school career


Episode Stats

Length

48 seconds

Words per Minute

132.00497

Word Count

106

Sentence Count

8


Summary

I was a high school teacher before getting into politics, and I'm having a little trouble remembering what exactly the job that the leader of the Opposition had before becoming a politician. Yes, and he left right in the middle of the semester.


Transcript

00:00:00.120 Yes, Mr. Speaker, I was a high school teacher before getting into politics, and I'm having a little trouble remembering what exactly the job that the Leader of the Opposition had before getting into politics.
00:00:11.440 Yes, and he left right in the middle of the semester, and I'm having trouble remembering why.
00:00:17.580 Mr. Speaker, he certainly wasn't a math teacher. He certainly was not a math teacher.
00:00:33.820 His own finance minister says that deficits pour fuel on the inflationary fire, right before she introduced $60 billion more deficit spending measures.
00:00:43.720 How much will that add to the inflation rate Canadians have to pay? How much?