Western Standard - April 15, 2024


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Pierre Poilievre Trudeau
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Length

1 minute

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155.91

Word count

157

Sentence count

11


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The leader of the Federal Conservative Party is in B.C. today highlighting the financial challenges he says many Canadians are facing ahead of Tuesday s budget. Pierre Polyvencic dropped by the Vancouver Food Bank to highlight rising housing costs and the carbon tax.

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00:00:00.000 The leader of the Federal Conservative Party is in B.C. today, highlighting the financial challenges he says many Canadians are facing ahead of Tuesday's budget.
00:00:09.140 Pierre Polyev dropped by the Vancouver Food Bank. He claims its usage has more than doubled over eight years of a Liberal government, thanks in part to rising housing costs and the carbon tax.
00:00:19.820 Polyev has made three demands for the budget, axed the carbon tax for farmers, set home building targets for local government grant funding, and a cap on government spending.
00:00:31.840 Everything costs more. Work doesn't pay. Housing costs have literally doubled.
00:00:38.980 And British Columbia has the worst housing crisis in the world, definitely in the developed world, because of NDP Liberal policies.
00:00:48.000 But the good news is that life wasn't like this before Trudeau, and it won't be like this after he's gone.
00:00:54.920 Polyev says his so-called common sense plan will give Canadians something to look forward to.