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House Hansard - 333

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 17, 2024 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 333 - Jun/17/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Jun/17/24 2:19:26 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am hoping someone can explain something to me. The leader of the Bloc Québécois voted for a Liberal motion to raise taxes. The same day, he posted on X that the tax also significantly affects people who have been saving their entire lives, many of them pensioners, whose property is their retirement fund. Now he opposes the tax hike. He wants to amend it in committee, but the motion will not go to committee. The tax will be implemented within a week. Can the Prime Minister explain to his counterpart in the Bloc-Liberal coalition how Parliament works?
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Context: House Hansard - 333 - Jun/17/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Jun/17/24 2:20:48 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we are talking about a so-called sovereignist party in Quebec that wants to take money from Quebec entrepreneurs, Quebec farmers, Quebec home builders and Quebec doctors and funnel it to the massive, centralist Liberal government. How is that common sense?
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Context: House Hansard - 333 - Jun/17/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Jun/17/24 2:21:53 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we always knew the Prime Minister was not worth the cost after nine years, but now his carbon tax cover-up has been exposed. We forced him to release data showing that, in addition to the higher bills at the pumps and on home heating that Canadians pay directly in the tax, there is also going to be a $30-billion-a-year hit to our economy. That is $1,800 in lost wages and higher prices for Canadian families. Now that we have caught the Liberals hiding the true cost of their tax, how can we believe anything else they say about any other tax hike?
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Context: House Hansard - 333 - Jun/17/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Jun/17/24 2:23:17 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the fanatical rhetoric of the extremist minister will not change anything, nor will his carbon tax change the weather. His carbon tax is not going to eliminate a single forest fire, a single drought or a single heat wave. All it will do is turn up the heat on Canadian taxpayers. Now we know that the Liberals' talking point about eight out of 10 Canadians does not include a $25-billion hit to the economy, which works out to almost $2,000 in lost wages and higher prices for families. Again, if they have been hiding this, what else are they hiding about their other tax hikes?
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Context: House Hansard - 333 - Jun/17/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Jun/17/24 2:24:38 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, now that we have caught them covering up the real cost of their carbon tax and who will pay it, it raises the question about their job-killing tax on home builders, health care, small business and farmers. The president of real estate company RE/MAX said that “it's just not true” that just the rich will pay; it will “penalize...average Canadians”. The Canadian food professor says farmers will pay, which means that anyone who eats will pay. Why will they not just clear all this up and accept an amendment to their capital gains tax hike to exclude anyone who is making less than $120,000 in income from paying a single cent in higher tax?
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