Western Standard - August 15, 2024


Spending Spree Trudeau's Strategy to Reclaim Voter Support

Topics
debt and austerity
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Trudeau
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4 minutes

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212.85

Word count

1,009

Sentence count

61

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1

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Justin Trudeau's government is on track to spend Canadians into poverty for generations, and the cost of living in Canada is skyrocketing. The federal government is running out of money and needs to find a way to pay the bills, but they can't seem to find it. They're spending more than they can afford and more taxes are being added to the national debt.

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00:00:00.000 So, I mean, the Trudeau government, though, they've been on the ropes for over a year.
00:00:04.400 Polls have been abysmal, and it appears nothing's going to turn them around.
00:00:07.920 So, changing the leader of their party, I mean, it could improve their fortunes.
00:00:11.200 It worked for the Democratic Party south of the border.
00:00:13.980 But Trudeau appears to be stubbornly unwilling to step aside, no matter how unpopular he becomes.
00:00:19.420 Now, the clock's ticking for the liberals.
00:00:21.040 They've got to be getting stressed.
00:00:22.200 I mean, unless Trudeau steps down within the next couple of months,
00:00:25.220 the liberals won't be able to hold a leadership and have a new leader well enough established
00:00:29.280 to head into an election in less than a year.
00:00:31.400 They're basically going to have to accept him and get used to it.
00:00:35.240 Aside from the usual campaign of trying to label all their opponents as being far-right, 0.75
00:00:40.160 you know, and scary and all that usual garbage,
00:00:42.040 the liberal tactic of trying to spend their way back into the hearts of Canadians has continued.
00:00:46.860 Hardly a day goes by without a new spending announcement.
00:00:49.820 And with over a year expected at least to pass before the next general election,
00:00:54.260 the Trudeau government's on track to spend Canadians into poverty for generations.
00:00:57.580 The latest announcement comes from Napanee, Ontario,
00:01:00.680 where a Goodyear plant is going to be getting 44 million tax dollars for an expansion.
00:01:05.860 Goodyear is a large multinational corporation that does not need corporate welfare from Canadians.
00:01:11.340 They're not going to say no when Trudeau comes prancing in with a signed check from taxpayers in his hand,
00:01:16.080 but they don't need it.
00:01:17.360 The ones who are in need are the desperate liberals,
00:01:19.260 and they're praying that somehow through corporate handouts,
00:01:21.540 the potential new jobs they might create may reverse the downward spiral in the polls.
00:01:27.200 Hasn't worked yet, but they're still doggedly trying,
00:01:29.740 and it's pretty easy to do when you're writing checks with somebody else's checkbook.
00:01:32.840 The subsidies are adding up to tens of billions of tax dollars
00:01:35.900 when the mad lust for investing in battery plants to service electric vehicles that nobody wants is added up.
00:01:42.640 While automakers are backing off from EV targets and cutting production,
00:01:46.300 Canadians are having their tax dollars poured into companies with a mandate to supply EV manufacturing. 0.99
00:01:50.600 In other words, a really stupid business decision and a recipe for financial disaster. 0.99
00:01:55.680 Then there's the public service. 0.99
00:01:57.360 With a decade in power, the Liberal governments managed to bloat the already grossly large civil service by 40%.
00:02:03.300 Services haven't gotten any better, though.
00:02:05.500 We just have more people underserving us than ever before at a higher cost than we ever possibly could have imagined.
00:02:11.280 Many of them went on strike last year,
00:02:13.000 and more have since been threatening labor action over having to come to the office more than two days a week.
00:02:17.440 Job growth in the private sector in Canada remains stagnant.
00:02:21.460 So that means we've got a smaller pool of people having to work more to pay a larger number of people to work less.
00:02:27.120 Private sector workers are becoming tired,
00:02:29.080 and as much as Trudeau is trying to change that private-to-public ratio to win an election,
00:02:33.460 there won't be enough civil servants hired to turn around an election. 0.99
00:02:36.240 But they sure will break us.
00:02:37.680 Trudeau's partnership with Singh's NDP is costing a fortune, too.
00:02:41.000 I mean, come on, nationalized dental services, daycare services, lunchroom services, pharma care services.
00:02:45.340 They're adding up to more billions of dollars that we can ill afford.
00:02:49.100 Clearly, though, the Trudeau government still somehow fears that Singh might pull the pin on their government.
00:02:54.420 You know, if he ever found his knackers and some courage, Singh's as happy as he's ever going to be.
00:02:59.660 And if he tries to, you know, he tries to talk tough now and then, but he's not going to go into an election.
00:03:03.540 He doesn't want to go anywhere than Trudeau does.
00:03:06.300 But the liberals are still tossing billions into NDP initiatives to be on the safe side.
00:03:10.500 Trudeau's government used to at least pretend they had a plan to reach a balanced budget one day.
00:03:15.420 But they've tossed out those pretenses of fiscal responsibility and just now plan to increase the national debt indefinitely.
00:03:22.140 You know, Trudeau has realized that budgets don't balance themselves finally.
00:03:25.440 But the problem is he doesn't care.
00:03:27.420 Government spending just keeps rising with the debt.
00:03:29.920 It's anticipated that the program spending is going to increase by another 18% by 28-29 if trends continue as they have.
00:03:37.140 That estimate's going to keep growing as the announcements keep coming.
00:03:39.800 The cost for servicing the debt's nearing $50 billion a year.
00:03:42.940 Think about that.
00:03:43.820 $50 billion a year in interest payments.
00:03:45.860 It's flushing money down the toilet and it's as much as the federal government spends on health care.
00:03:51.020 Worst of all, it's the future generations who are going to be left with the bill.
00:03:54.080 Trudeau, he's eventually going to be tossed from office.
00:03:57.160 He's never soon enough.
00:03:58.900 He'll retire on some private island, live out his life in luxury.
00:04:02.120 Meanwhile, young Canadians are going to have years of austerity when budgets have to be cut and taxes have to be risen.
00:04:07.420 And when the nation hits the inevitable fiscal wall, Trudeau is the most irresponsible, selfish prime minister in Canadian history.
00:04:13.740 He has no qualms about indebting generations in a desperate attempt to remain in power.
00:04:18.820 Some people think that Trudeau should remain in power until the next election because his terrible leadership provides an advantage to the Conservative Party. 0.97
00:04:24.400 This might be true, but the price to keep that fool in power any longer than we have to is much too high. 0.70
00:04:29.700 Trudeau is clearly never going to discover the concepts of personal accountability or empathy for struggling Canadians. 0.92
00:04:34.860 But perhaps some Liberal Caucus members will.
00:04:37.600 They have to pressure that clown to resign as strongly as possible and as soon as possible. 0.94
00:04:41.480 We just can't afford to keep him there any longer. 0.97