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House Hansard - 268

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 14, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 268 - Dec/14/23
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Dec/14/23 2:20:18 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister told us he doubled the national debt so that Canadians would not need to increase their debt. Now we find out that after eight years of this Prime Minister, Canadian families are spending a bigger portion of their budget on servicing their personal debt. It is at a record high in Canada. In fact, Canadians are spending more on their household debt than Americans did before the 2008 financial crisis. Will the Prime Minister finally put a stop to his inflationary taxes and spending so that Canadians can buy food and housing instead of paying for their debt?
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Context: House Hansard - 268 - Dec/14/23
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Dec/14/23 2:21:47 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the economy has been shrinking per capita for five quarters now. Our economy is smaller per capita than it was five years ago. What is more, after eight years, this Prime Minister is not worth the cost of housing. According to the Bank of Canada, housing costs are now the highest they have been in 41 years, and rents are rising faster than ever. It is an all-time record. When will the Prime Minister stop driving up inflation and creating bloated bureaucracy to allow affordable housing to be built?
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Context: House Hansard - 268 - Dec/14/23
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Dec/14/23 2:23:09 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we already knew that the Prime Minister is not worth the price of food after eight years of inflation, but yesterday he could not answer how a mushroom farm in my riding is supposed to pay its $100,000 carbon tax bill. He did send the farm a Christmas present: a new bill. This is the November 9 to December 6 bill: federal carbon tax, $16,050. That is for one month, and it is not even winter yet. How would the Prime Minister like this farm to pay this $16,000 monthly bill? Should it raise food prices?
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Context: House Hansard - 268 - Dec/14/23
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Dec/14/23 2:24:48 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, this is more high-flying, high-cost, high-tax hypocrisy from the minister of carbon taxes. We learned that he spent $150,000 on one weekend of travel and charged it to taxpayers. Is it not interesting that it is exactly how much the government is charging the Carleton Mushroom Farms in carbon taxes for a year? Can the minister please tell us this: The Carleton Mushroom Farms is going to spend this year, now, about $150,000 on carbon taxes; will that just pay for one of his junkets?
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Context: House Hansard - 268 - Dec/14/23
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Dec/14/23 2:26:27 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, for the Prime Minister to pass himself off as Winston Churchill after he gave detonators for mines to the Russian military so it could use them against Ukrainians, and after he allowed the Iranian-linked IRGC to operate legally in Canada, 700 of its agents, by the way, who are also linked to Russia, operating in our country and terrorizing our people, is not Churchillian. This is hypocritical, political grandstanding by a Prime Minister trying to distract from his failed carbon tax.
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