Western Standard - September 14, 2023


Trudeau threatens new taxes on grocery chains over rising food prices


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Length

1 minute

Words per minute

182.4849

Word count

282

Sentence count

1

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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Trudeau is threatening a grocery store tax and we're fighting back! Stay tuned folks. More to come on this soon folks stay tuned. . I'll be back with more on this in a few days

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 breaking news folks it looks like trudeau is threatening a grocery store tax uh it sounds
00:00:06.720 too crazy to believe but i just finished watching a press conference where he said he's going to
00:00:11.840 bring grocery store owners to ottawa and they got to come up with a plan to lower grocery prices
00:00:16.880 and if they can't come up with the plan that trudeau likes he says he might impose quote
00:00:22.480 tax measures can you believe that like what do you think that means you think that means trudeau
00:00:27.360 is going to lower taxes well i think that means he's going to bring in a grocery store tax a tax
00:00:33.360 on groceries well here's a problem taxes aren't going to make groceries more affordable it's
00:00:39.840 trudeau's carbon tax that's making groceries more expensive making it more expensive for farmers to
00:00:46.080 use natural gas or propane on their farms making it more expensive for the truck driver that delivers
00:00:52.480 groceries to the store more expensive to fill up their big rig with diesel and when trudeau's carbon
00:00:57.600 tax makes it more expensive for farmers to produce food and truckers to deliver food he's making it
00:01:03.440 more expensive for you to buy the food so we got to fight back on this no way can we allow a federal 0.60
00:01:09.920 government to even muse about a grocery store tax instead trudeau should immediately do the one thing
00:01:17.200 that would make life more affordable including groceries and scrap the carbon tax but don't worry
00:01:22.960 folks we are going to fight this there's no way that we want to hear our prime minister even musing
00:01:28.000 about a grocery store tax more to come stay tuned folks