Western Standard - April 15, 2024


Trudeau's Tax Burden on Farmers and Truckers Hits Consumers Conservatives Rally for C 234


Episode Stats

Length

1 minute

Words per Minute

155.90865

Word Count

157

Sentence Count

12


Summary

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.


Transcript

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.