We all know that it's true:
Trudeau spoke to MPs at the beginning of a two-day caucus retreat in Ottawa. Trudeau regularly attacks Poilievre, who has gained a significant lead in national polls, but rarely attacks specific Conservative MPs or candidates.He said Poilievre only seems to be welcoming party insiders or ideologues into his version of the Conservative party. He called out MP Branden Leslie, who won for the party in the Manitoba seat of Portage Lisgar, for being against a ban on conversion therapy.
He also attacked MP Leslyn Lewis, as someone “who dines with far right German politicians and leads the call to withdraw Canada from the United Nations does not speak for Canada, she may speak for the Conservative Party of Canada but she does not speak for Canada.”
Lewis has sponsored a parliamentary petition calling for Canada to leave the UN.Trudeau suggested Poilievre is picking candidates who will represent the party’s views instead of those of their constituents.
“They welcome Roman Baber as a candidate in the GTA even though his extremism got him kicked out of Ontario’s Conservative Party. Their new MP in Oxford was a handpick insider who’d never been to the riding.”
Where in that speech did Justin remind his audience of the strength of the Canadian economy?
For years, until the latter stages of the pandemic, governments across Canada benefited from historically low interest rates that made it relatively inexpensive to borrow money. Many governments chose to increase their spending and run deficits, seeming to assume interest rates would stay low forever. But then in 2022 reality bit.
As inflation reached its highest point since the 1980s, the Bank of Canada raised its policy interest rate from 0.25 per cent to 5.00 per cent in just 15 months. This substantial hike made it more expensive to borrow money, not only for consumers and businesses but for governments, too.
As we show in a new Fraser Institute study, since taking office, the Trudeau government has run uninterrupted budget deficits and accumulated nearly $1 trillion in total debt. When interest rates were still historically low in 2021, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland claimed “it would be shortsighted” not to make “investments” and borrow money to pay for new spending. What was really shortsighted, it turns out, was not seeing that interest rates would spike starting just a year later.
Since fiscal year 2021-22 federal debt interest has nearly doubled — from $24.5 billion to $46.5 billion. In the fiscal year now coming to a close Ottawa will have spent almost as much on debt interest as on the Canada Health Transfer ($49.4 billion), which goes to the provinces to help fund health-care services. It will have spent half again as much on interest as on the Canada Child Benefit and national daycare combined ($31.2 billion).
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Where is my $90,000 vacation, Justin?:
Days after Globe and Mail reporter Marieke Walsh asked Justin Trudeau about the optics of accepting a pricey holiday vacation as many Canadians struggle to put food on the table, the Canadian prime minister is still being jeered online for his robotic response in which he defended his decision to accept a free Jamaican getaway.
“You just laid out the tough economic times that Canadians are facing, you say that you are seized with the issue. Did you consider that backdrop when you decided to take an $80,000 free vacation?” Walsh asked Trudeau earlier this week.
With his lips curling into a smirk, Trudeau replied: “As many Canadians did, I stayed with friends over the holidays.”
Walsh pressed the prime minister saying, “Many Canadians don’t have access to $90,000 free vacations, so can you explain the thinking as to why you take these vacations and how you think Canadians receive them?”
Unflinchingly, Trudeau nodded with a look of condescension as he responded in a robotic-like manner: “Like many Canadians did, I stayed with family friends over the holidays.”
He doesn't even have to answer for it.
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And what were those greatest hits of an unaccomplished nobody?:
What’s a lot more interesting is the present reality: Mr. Trudeau is now the sole proprietor of his very own bedraggled Liberal Party of Canada, and he is that aging rock star. He has basically no choice but to play his biggest hits from back in the day, hope the contrast with his younger and more limber self isn’t too awkward and pray at least some of the audience will sing along.
This loser was projected into the spotlight and that is where he has stayed.
He didn't fool anyone.
He was installed.
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Trudeau’s Emergency Act against the Truckers two years ago is ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL. It was a cynical and twisted way to divert attention to save his hide and rally support to put out a brewing Liberal MP revolt. That was the real emergency for him. The week before MP Joël… https://t.co/RxhhDmIVNw
— Marc Dalton, M.P. (@MarcDalton) January 23, 2024
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