Trudeau & the NDP’s cruel April Fools' Day joke
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Summary
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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I wish it were on better occasion, but look behind you there.
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That right there is Justin Trudeau and the NDP's cruel April Fool's Day joke on Canadians.
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It is a joke that brings tears to the eyes of most Canadians
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because after eight years of Trudeau and his coalition with the NDP,
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Two million Canadians line up at food banks because they can't afford food.
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One-third of food-related charities are turning Canadians away because they've run out of food.
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In Montreal, a couple of weeks back, there was a small riot after the food ran out
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and the police had to be called because there were too many hungry people on the streets
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In St. John's, in St. John's, Newfoundland, there are 28 dead bodies left in refrigerators
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outside of a hospital because families could not afford a funeral or cremation.
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Leaving your aunt, your father, your sister, your brother in a freezer next to a dumpster
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at a hospital because you cannot afford to give them a dignified goodbye.
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These are the kinds of stories that we see after eight years of Trudeau.
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Homeless encampments are now common in almost every community in the country.
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We all remember the downtown east side of Vancouver.
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Well, Justin Trudeau and the NDP have taken that model nationwide.
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They've doubled housing costs with rent, mortgage payments, and down payments now costing twice
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what they did eight years ago when Trudeau promised to lower them.
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Then we have the crime because of catch and release, decriminalization of drugs, and wasted money
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We have crime and chaos everywhere in our streets.
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40,000 people have died of drug overdoses as the prime minister floods our streets with tax-funded opioids.
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And his solution to all this misery is today to hike the carbon tax by 23 percent.
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It's a tax on your heat, a tax on your food, because if you tax the farmer who grows the food
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and the trucker who ships the food, you tax all who buy the food.
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It is a tax that will cost the majority of families in every single province more than they get back.
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In Alberta, the average family will pay $900 more this year than they get back in rebates.
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In Saskatchewan, $525 more than they get back in rebates.
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And in Newfoundland and Labrador, $377 more in tax costs than you get back in rebates.
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Here, the NDP government is expected to collect $9 billion more in carbon taxes and give back $3.5 billion in credits.
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So you can tell there's a big difference between $9 and $3.5.
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That's $5.5 billion in net taxes out of the pockets of British Columbians.
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It is a combined tax imposed by Trudeau in Ottawa, but happily administered by the NDP government of David Eby here in British Columbia.
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My friends, the good news is life was not like this before Trudeau, and it won't be like this after he's gone.
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There will be a carbon tax election with a very clear choice between Trudeau, a costly coalition of Trudeau and the NDP,
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who tax your food, punish your work, take your money, double your housing costs, and unleash crime and chaos in your community,
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or common-sense conservatives, who ax the tax, build the homes, fix the budget, and stop the crime.
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Common-sense conservatives will ax the tax to bring down costs on our farmers, on our small businesses, on building materials.
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We will cap government spending and cut waste to balance the budget so we can bring down inflation and interest rates,
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and your dollar will carry its purchasing power forward into the future.
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Speaking of powerful paychecks, we'll remove government gatekeepers to develop our resources again.
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Our fisheries, our forestry, our farmers, our factories will come roaring back to life,
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producing more of the goods that money buys rather than just producing money.
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We're going to bring home the production to Canada.
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We're going to incentivize our municipalities to speed up and lower the cost of building permits.
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We'll require they permit 15% more housing completions per year as a condition of getting federal funds
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so that they get out of the way and let builders build.
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We'll sell off 6,000 federal buildings, thousands of acres of federal land to build, build, build.
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We'll back up the trade so we have more builders to do the work.
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And we will ensure these homes are in safe neighborhoods.
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With jail and not bail for repeat violent offenders.
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With treatment, not more decriminalized and subsidized drugs so that we can rehabilitate our loved ones and bring them home drug-free.
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We will stop the attack on law-abiding, lawful hunters and sports shooters.
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It is the criminals who bring the guns over the border illegally.
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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.
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This is the hopeful, bright and optimistic future that awaits with a common-sense conservative government
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that will axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime.