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House Hansard - 75

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 19, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 75 - May/19/22
Mr. Dan Albas (Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, CPC)
  • May/19/22 2:31:11 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the last time we saw the price of groceries jump 10% was in 1981, when another big tax-and-spend Liberal prime minister was in office. What was his name again? It is like déjà vu. Doug Porter, the chief economist at BMO, said that inflation “is spreading much more broadly, and at clear risk of getting firmly entrenched”. Will the Liberal government acknowledge today that its big tax-and-spend policies are entrenching inflation? When will it start to address the cost-of-living crisis that we are in?
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Context: House Hansard - 75 - May/19/22
Mr. Dan Albas (Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, CPC)
  • May/19/22 2:32:29 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the minister is still using talking points from 2015. He has the time machine. He is going back to 1981 with those policies. Other energy-exporting countries, like the United States and Australia, are taking action to protect their consumers from record-high gas prices. Trevor Tombe, an economist at the University of Calgary, has found that when Alberta dropped its gas tax, it successfully reduced its inflation rate in April. Since the Liberal government obviously has no ideas about how it can improve gas prices, will it at least reconsider the Conservative proposal to exempt the GST on fuel? Will it at least do that?
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