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Pierre Poilievre Conservative
“The Liberals ask what we would cut. We have found about $200 billion in savings. We would cancel the $150-billion Alto train project. We would end subsidies and loans to big corporations, including ones the Prime Minister has a personal interest in. We would end benefits for fake refugees and cut foreign aid. We want to cut this wasteful government spending and leave that money with Canadians.”
“Mr. Speaker, the Liberals always ask, as if it were some kind of gotcha question, “What would we cut?” We have only found about $200 billion of savings that we have identified and stated publicly. To start with, there is the Alto rail disaster. The government wants to spend $150 billion on a train that is already off the tracks even though it has not built a single inch of rail. That is $150 billion right there. Massive increases in corporate welfare, which favours corporate power brokers with massive interest-free loans, grants, subsidies and other favours, would be reversed. This is companies such as Brookfield and others that the Prime Minister has a personal interest in. While he hides his money abroad, he mostly forces Canadians to subsidize his corporate interests here at home. We would get rid of the deluxe benefits for fake and phony refugees, who get more benefit from our tax dollars than our hard-working seniors do. We would cut back on foreign aid and stop sending our money out of Canada. It belongs to the Canadian people. We would bring it back to our people. I just came up with four or five excellent examples of how we could cut back the enormous, wasteful, morbidly obese government we have on the other side of the aisle, so Canadians can have a more rewarding life.”
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals always ask, as if it were some kind of gotcha question, “What would we cut?” We have only found about $200 billion of savings that we have identified and stated publicly. To start with, there is the Alto rail disaster. The government wants to spend $150 billion on a train that is already off the tracks even though it has not built a single inch of rail. That is $150 billion right there. Massive increases in corporate welfare, which favours corporate power brokers with massive interest-free loans, grants, subsidies and other favours, would be reversed. This is companies such as Brookfield and others that the Prime Minister has a personal interest in. While he hides his money abroad, he mostly forces Canadians to subsidize his corporate interests here at home. We would get rid of the deluxe benefits for fake and phony refugees, who get more benefit from our tax dollars than our hard-working seniors do. We would cut back on foreign aid and stop sending our money out of Canada. It belongs to the Canadian people. We would bring it back to our people. I just came up with four or five excellent examples of how we could cut back the enormous, wasteful, morbidly obese government we have on the other side of the aisle, so Canadians can have a more rewarding life.