Western Standard - April 02, 2024


Trudeau & the NDP’s cruel April Fools' Day joke


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Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

142.25359

Word count

954

Sentence count

66

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Hate speech

2

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Learn English with Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been Prime Minister of Canada for eight years and is now running for re-election. In this speech, Justin Trudeau lays out his vision for Canada and why he should not be re-elected.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I wish it were on better occasion, but look behind you there.
00:00:06.060 That right there is Justin Trudeau and the NDP's cruel April Fool's Day joke on Canadians.
00:00:16.560 It is a joke without laughter.
00:00:20.000 It is a joke that brings tears to the eyes of most Canadians
00:00:23.360 because after eight years of Trudeau and his coalition with the NDP,
00:00:28.640 everything costs more.
00:00:30.960 Two million Canadians line up at food banks because they can't afford food.
00:00:35.360 One-third of food-related charities are turning Canadians away because they've run out of food.
00:00:42.380 In Montreal, a couple of weeks back, there was a small riot after the food ran out
00:00:48.860 and the police had to be called because there were too many hungry people on the streets
00:00:52.520 clamoring for something to eat.
00:00:54.580 In St. John's, in St. John's, Newfoundland, there are 28 dead bodies left in refrigerators
00:01:05.040 outside of a hospital because families could not afford a funeral or cremation.
00:01:11.600 Can you imagine that?
00:01:12.500 Leaving your aunt, your father, your sister, your brother in a freezer next to a dumpster
00:01:18.920 at a hospital because you cannot afford to give them a dignified goodbye.
00:01:26.620 These are the kinds of stories that we see after eight years of Trudeau.
00:01:31.220 Homeless encampments are now common in almost every community in the country.
00:01:36.800 We all remember the downtown east side of Vancouver.
00:01:41.220 Well, Justin Trudeau and the NDP have taken that model nationwide.
00:01:46.400 They've doubled housing costs with rent, mortgage payments, and down payments now costing twice
00:01:52.240 what they did eight years ago when Trudeau promised to lower them.
00:01:57.020 Then we have the crime because of catch and release, decriminalization of drugs, and wasted money
00:02:05.360 pursuing a ban on hunters and sports shooters.
00:02:09.400 We have crime and chaos everywhere in our streets.
00:02:12.060 Violent crime of 40 percent.
00:02:14.640 Shootings up over 100 percent. 0.93
00:02:17.440 40,000 people have died of drug overdoses as the prime minister floods our streets with tax-funded opioids.
00:02:25.020 And his solution to all this misery is today to hike the carbon tax by 23 percent.
00:02:32.060 This is not just a tax at the pump.
00:02:34.340 It's a tax on your heat, a tax on your food, because if you tax the farmer who grows the food
00:02:42.300 and the trucker who ships the food, you tax all who buy the food.
00:02:47.020 It is a tax that will cost the majority of families in every single province more than they get back.
00:02:54.080 In Alberta, the average family will pay $900 more this year than they get back in rebates.
00:03:00.580 In Saskatchewan, $525 more than they get back in rebates.
00:03:05.300 In Manitoba, $502 more.
00:03:08.040 In Ontario, $627 more.
00:03:11.320 In Nova Scotia, $537 more.
00:03:15.080 In Prince Edward Island, $550 more.
00:03:18.420 And in Newfoundland and Labrador, $377 more in tax costs than you get back in rebates.
00:03:26.180 And in B.C., it's worst of all.
00:03:28.060 Here, the NDP government is expected to collect $9 billion more in carbon taxes and give back $3.5 billion in credits.
00:03:41.440 So you can tell there's a big difference between $9 and $3.5.
00:03:45.180 That's $5.5 billion in net taxes out of the pockets of British Columbians.
00:03:51.880 It is a combined tax imposed by Trudeau in Ottawa, but happily administered by the NDP government of David Eby here in British Columbia.
00:04:04.080 My friends, the good news is life was not like this before Trudeau, and it won't be like this after he's gone.
00:04:10.240 There will be a carbon tax election with a very clear choice between Trudeau, a costly coalition of Trudeau and the NDP,
00:04:23.540 who tax your food, punish your work, take your money, double your housing costs, and unleash crime and chaos in your community,
00:04:29.840 or common-sense conservatives, who ax the tax, build the homes, fix the budget, and stop the crime.
00:04:35.820 Common-sense conservatives will ax the tax to bring down costs on our farmers, on our small businesses, on building materials.
00:04:43.420 We will cap government spending and cut waste to balance the budget so we can bring down inflation and interest rates,
00:04:49.440 and your dollar will carry its purchasing power forward into the future.
00:04:53.960 Speaking of powerful paychecks, we'll remove government gatekeepers to develop our resources again. 0.98
00:04:59.440 Our fisheries, our forestry, our farmers, our factories will come roaring back to life,
00:05:05.620 producing more of the goods that money buys rather than just producing money.
00:05:11.540 We're going to bring home the production to Canada.
00:05:13.960 We're going to incentivize our municipalities to speed up and lower the cost of building permits.
00:05:19.640 We'll require they permit 15% more housing completions per year as a condition of getting federal funds
00:05:26.360 so that they get out of the way and let builders build.
00:05:29.380 We'll sell off 6,000 federal buildings, thousands of acres of federal land to build, build, build.
00:05:36.160 We'll back up the trade so we have more builders to do the work. 0.98
00:05:39.420 We need more boots and not more suits.
00:05:42.360 And we will ensure these homes are in safe neighborhoods.
00:05:48.000 With jail and not bail for repeat violent offenders.
00:05:51.340 With treatment, not more decriminalized and subsidized drugs so that we can rehabilitate our loved ones and bring them home drug-free.
00:06:01.180 We will stop the attack on law-abiding, lawful hunters and sports shooters.
00:06:07.500 We know that our hunters are not the problem.
00:06:10.500 It is the criminals who bring the guns over the border illegally.
00:06:13.380 We'll put the money into reinforcing our ports and our borders so that we keep the illegal drugs and guns out of our country. 1.00
00:06:21.740 And we bring home safety to all Canadians.
00:06:24.660 This is the hopeful, bright and optimistic future that awaits with a common-sense conservative government
00:06:31.740 that will axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime.
00:06:36.300 Let's bring it home.
00:06:37.060 Let's bring it home.
00:06:41.980 Bye.