NDP-Bloc-Trudeau coalition rejects non-confidence vote
Hello,
On Wednesday last week and again this past Tuesday, Members of Parliament had an opportunity to vote non-confidence in the Justin Trudeau Liberal government after nine years that have left Canadians feeling hopeless. The Bloc Quebecois and the Jagmeet Singh NDP chose to continue this reckless government. We could be in an election now if they had voted with Pierre Poilievre and the common-sense Conservatives.
Pierre Poilievre delivered this speech before the non-confidence vote. Please share it with your friends and neighbours. The transcript is below:
Speech From Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre On Non-Confidence Vote
"Madam Speaker, this country made me a promise when I was born. It made the same promise to everyone in this room and across this country. I was born to a 16-year-old single mom who put me up for adoption to two schoolteachers, and they taught me about this promise. The promise was that anyone from anywhere could do anything. That hard work would earn a powerful paycheque that would buy you good food in a decent home, in a safe neighborhood. It's that promise that brought my wife's family here as refugees from Venezuela. Six people in a two-bedroom basement working class Montreal apartment, her dad waking up at the crack of dawn to hop in the back of a pickup truck and go out into the middle of a farm field and pick fruit so that he could pay the rent. Today, her brother is a soldier and a carpenter. Her sister is a nurse. Her father has a business with his wife, and they have all succeeded. The promise was kept.
"It was that promise that got me into politics in the first place, and I was very proud to be part of a government that not only kept the promise, but expanded it with the lowest inflation in almost half a century. Income after tax and inflation went up 10%. We cut the GST, we balanced the budget, we did it all while increasing healthcare transfers faster than any government since that transfer.
"That's why I welcome every single time they talk about my experience in government as I will do the exact same things in the future, which is to expand the opportunity, expand the promise of this country. But that promise, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister is broken. Everything costs more with 2 million people lined up at food banks because they cannot afford food. This is a record smashing number. One in ten Torontonians now eat at a food bank every single month. Housing costs have doubled so that two thirds of young people believe they will never be able to afford a home. That has never happened in Canadian history. And we see it most tragically in our streets where there are now 1,800 homeless encampments across Ontario, 35 in Halifax. Quaint, beautiful, once-prosperous Halifax has 35 homeless encampments. The Prime Minister admits in his own press releases that one in four kids are not getting enough food. Malnutrition and diseases linked to it that had long ago been eradicated are making comebacks. We've lost 47,000 people to drug overdoses, more than we lost in the second World War.
"These numbers are stories. They're human lives. When the NDP says all these people can just wait, we don't need to fix these problems now. We could just delay another year and let thousands more die, thousands more lose their homes and move into dangerous tent encampments. Thousands more become addicted to government-funded drugs or be killed by a rampant career criminal released once again for the 76th time to unleash chaos in our streets. They say wait to those Canadians who are suffering the pain of a brutal economy, the worst economy since the Great Depression. The per capita GDP, that's income per person, is down more than any time since the Great Depression. In fact, our economy per capita is smaller today than it was 10 years ago. Our income per person has dropped more than any other G7 country since 2019, the year before the pandemic while the American economy has grown 19% right next door. The gap between our capita GDP and the Americans is now worse than at any time since at least World War II and according to one Liberal economist, Trevor Tombe, the worst in a century.
"We've gone from winning the war of capitalism with the Americans, the tug of war, where they were investing $30 to $100 billion more per year in our economy than we were investing in theirs in the first 14 years of this century to, in the last nine years, $450 billion more Canadian money invested in the States than the reverse. Canadian dollars building pipelines, mines, business centers, shopping centers, and businesses that pay American paycheques. I love America, but I don't want to bring jobs to Americans. I want to bring home those jobs and the Canadian promise to this country.
"And that's why we have a common sense plan to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget, and stop the crime. Axe the tax, this will be a carbon tax referendum, a carbon tax election, and I know that the media has worked hard to try and avoid me saying the words 'carbon tax,' as we saw in the extremely dishonest and fraudulent report from Bell Media-controlled CTV, a company whose bonds have been downgraded to near junk status as its overpaid CEO empties the books to pay his wealthy friends an unacceptably and unrealistically high dividend. But the reason why he and his other cronies of that company are going after me is because he knows that I'm standing up for the people against the crony capitalists and insiders right now.
"A carbon tax election. Here's the existential choice. Do we go to a 61 cent a liter carbon tax, giving us among the highest taxed fuel in all of the world. A tax that will grind our economy to a halt, that will force our truckers to leave to the US where there is no carbon tax, nobody left to bring goods to our grocery store, parts to our factories, jobs to our people. It will be a nuclear winter if this happens. That's why Common Sense Conservatives will axe the tax. We will bring home jobs, paychecks, businesses, and opportunity with abundant, affordable energy. We will fight climate change and protect our economy with technology, not taxes. By approving large scale green projects that generate nuclear, hydroelectric, carbon capture and storage and other sources of affordable, clean, Canadian energy; will once again get approved when we repeal the anti-development law C-69, all of which will generate the revenues so that we can fix the budget.
"We'll fix the budget by unleashing massive growth through the elimination of bureaucratic barriers and firing gatekeepers so that our projects can get built. Setting the goal that all three levels of government should aspire to have the fastest building permits in the entire OECD. After nine years of tax increases on entrepreneurs and calling businesses tax cheats, we will pass a bring it home tax cut to lower the burden on work savings and investment so that we bring home powerful paychecks and production to this country. Lower, fairer simpler taxes.
"We will cap government spending with a dollar-for-dollar law that requires we find $1 of savings for every new dollar of spending. We'll cut bureaucracy, waste and consulting contracts so that we can get the budget close or hopefully on balance as soon as possible to bring down interest rates, inflation, and debt. And finally, we will unleash the construction of homes by incentivizing municipalities to grant faster permits, free up land and to cut development taxes so that we can build in safe neighborhoods with jail, not bail, for repeat violent offenders to bring home the promise of Canada, of a powerful paycheque that earns affordable food, gas, and homes in safe neighborhoods where anyone from anywhere can do anything. The biggest and most open land of opportunity the world has ever seen. That is our vision. That is our purpose. Now let's bring it home."
