The leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Poilievre, sent a letter on Sunday to the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, in which he does not mince his words against his opponent whom he accuses of being responsible for a record debt and deficits.
Mr. Poilievre, who shared his letter on Facebook claiming to have “conservative common sense,” criticizes Prime Minister Trudeau’s budgetary management.
“Mr Prime Minister, you are not worth the cost,” he wrote at the start of his letter, then a second time after mentioning the “disastrous record” of his opponent in terms of the economy.
“Because of your disastrous policies, housing costs have doubled since you promised to lower them in 2015. You have doubled rent, mortgage payments and down payments. Your record debt and deficits have caused interest rates to skyrocket,” the Conservative leader bluntly writes.
According to Mr. Poilievre, the current Prime Minister has “added more debt than all the other Prime Ministers combined.”
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“But you don’t care”
Mr. Poilievre accuses the Prime Minister of being responsible for the rise in interest rates and of having pushed “people to the limit” through his “punitive taxes”.
According to him, Mr. Trudeau does not listen to his fellow citizens.
“On April 1, you decided to once again increase your cruel carbon tax by 23%, without taking into account the 70% of provincial premiers and the 70% of Canadians who opposed this increase,” writes the Conservative leader, who also deplores the Liberal leader’s decision to oppose Bill C-234 defended by “common-sense conservatives”, which aimed to cut “the tax for farmers”.
Mr. Poilievre also argues that his opponent has not done enough on the housing crisis.
“Canada is building fewer housing units today than in the 1970s, when the country had half the population,” he says before continuing with a gloomy prognosis: “Building starts in 2025- 2026 will be even weaker than in 2020-2021.”
Three requests
In the name of “common-sense Conservatives,” Mr. Poilievre made three demands of Mr. Trudeau in order to “fix the budget” and “give Canadians the relief they desperately need.”
-Cut the tax on farmers and food by immediately passing Bill C-234 in its original form.
-Build housing, not bureaucracy, by requiring cities to allow 15 percent more housing to be built each year as a condition of receiving federal infrastructure funds.
-Limit spending by applying the dollar-for-dollar rule to lower interest rates and inflation. The government must save a dollar for every new dollar of spending.
Pierre Poilievre ended his letter by issuing a warning to his opponent: “Common-sense conservatives will only agree to support the budget if these three conditions are met.”