SummarySpren for "Economic conditions"
- • The economy shrank by 1.1% and per capita growth is the worst in the OECD.
• Every Canadian, on average, is getting poorer.
- • Mr. Adam van Koeverden is advocating for continued support of programs that help vulnerable Canadians, such as guaranteed livable income strategies, the Canada child benefit, and the guaranteed income supplement.
• The Conservative party's previous policies did not effectively address poverty, and Mr. van Koeverden is arguing that their proposed cuts to these programs would only exacerbate the issue.
- • The government is introducing Bill C-59, an economic statement that will help deliver on key measures of the economic plan, including modernizing competition laws, doubling the rural top-up on the pollution pricing rebate, and removing the GST on new rental home construction and co-ops.
• The Conservatives have become a one-issue party, claiming that axing the tax will solve all the country's problems, but this is not the case.
- • The per capita GDP numbers represent the real world and show that Canadians are getting worse off, with the current economic situation being compared to the Trudeau economic rampage of the 1970s and 1980s.
• The speaker is calling on the Prime Minister to acknowledge the negative impact of following the Trudeau economic blueprint on the economy.
- • The Liberal government has been delivering for Canadians, including through the construction of affordable, non-profit, non-market co-op housing.
• The Conservative party has opposed the Ukraine-Canada free trade agreement and has criticized the construction of non-market housing, calling it "Soviet-style housing."