if a policy is sound , you do not reverse it because of criticism from your political opposition
your principals are worth defending or they are not worth anything
Carney's temporary reduction in the Carbon tax levy was vote buying plain and simple
that is a fools logic
Please explain exactly what Carney can do that Pierre P can not do with respect to Tariffs
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre delivered a speech Tuesday on Parliament Hill announcing Canada's response to a 25 per cent tariff U.S. President Donald Trump is imposing on most Canadian goods.
Here is a transcript of his remarks.
At 12:01 a.m., President Trump stabbed America's best friend in the back.
My message to the president is this: Canada will fight back. We will defend our people and our economy, and we will put Canada first.
There is no doubt that our economy will suffer. But so will yours, President Trump. In fact, you're already paying the price with trillions of dollars erased in stock market value over the last month of these threats. Already, Americans are paying higher gas prices, as at midnight, a new American gas tax kicked in on U.S. working-class taxpayers and motorists.
Your workers will soon start losing jobs — jobs they had upgrading Canadian raw materials, which by the way you were getting at an incredible and ridiculous bargain, and your businesses will be selling fewer products to your closest neighbour.
And that's only the beginning. While Canadians are slow to anger and quick to forgive, once provoked, we fight back. And we will fight back.
Now, I'd like to speak to the millions of Canadians who are anxious today after learning that President Trump has attacked our economy.
To the autoworkers. The forestry workers. The steel and aluminum workers. The mining and energy workers. The truckers. The farmers. To all of you who get out of bed before the sun rises and do the labour of the nation.
You are afraid right now, and I understand. I want you to know that I will fight for you. I will fight for your job, I will fight for your family, I will fight for your chance at owning and paying off a home and I will fight for your retirement. And I will fight to put Canada first.
Before these tariffs came in this morning, you must have been asking yourself: how could things get any worse? Before these tariffs, you were already suffering. You wondered how you'd pay the rent or eventually dream of buying a home after housing costs had doubled over the last decade, rising faster than in any other G7 country.
You've downgraded your diet, as food prices have risen 37 per cent faster in Canada than in the United States over the last five years. You might be one of the two million people, a record-breaking number, lined up at food banks — a number that had more than doubled before these tariffs applied.
You've likely noticed that your paycheque is not keeping up with the record inflation, as Canada's GDP has grown less and lower than any other G7 country over the last decade.
You might have noticed that your company has already been moving jobs to the United States, as greedy and self-serving CEOs put their share prices ahead of your job and a half-trillion dollars net has left from Canada to Trump's America under the current Liberal government.
And now this. But I am here with a message of hope. We will overcome this attack on our economy, and I have a plan to do it.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre laid out his party's plan to counter U.S. tariffs on Tuesday. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)
First, we must retaliate, targeting American goods in the following order: a) goods we can make ourselves, b) goods we don't need and c) goods we can get from elsewhere.
Second, counter-tariffs must not be a cash cow for the government. Almost every penny of the tariffs collected should go to tax cuts, with a small sum set aside for targeted relief to workers hardest hit by the trade war. None of the money should go to new government spending and programs. We must not allow politicians to dishonestly use this crisis to once again launch a debt-fuelled, money-printing spending spree that will drive up inflation and further destroy the working class and hit the poorest people the hardest.
Third, we must immediately pass a bring it home tax cut on work, investment, energy and home building. The idea is to neutralize the cost of the tariffs with lower taxes and incentivize massive new investment in building stuff in this country. The obvious place to start is to get rid of the Liberal carbon tax, then axe the sales tax on new homes. We need to reverse the Liberal capital gains tax hike and slash income tax, so that hard work pays off and you bring home more of each dollar you earn.
Fourth, we must immediately repeal the Liberal no-new-pipelines law, C-69, a law that not only blocks all pipelines, but stops mines, refineries, export plants and all kinds of other energy infrastructure and makes us hopelessly reliant on one customer, the Americans — a customer we cannot count on anymore.
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