Speaking to a Toronto business audience the day after Ottawa’s fall economic update, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre criticized the Liberals for failing to bring government spending down to pre-pandemic levels.
“It is true that COVID cost a lot of money. Government shut down economies and we had to compensate workers and businesses for the loss of income that they endured. There’s no question about that,” he said Friday. “We did not have to increase government spending by 30 per cent from pre-COVID to present, now, when all of the COVID programs are supposedly lapsed. We didn’t have to have a rate of permanent growth in spending, unrelated to COVID, that has left us in this precarious situation.
It also presented two sets of fiscal forecasts based on whether or not the Canadian economy slips into recession in 2023. Mr. Trudeau criticized Conservative economic policy as a “reckless” plan that is based on spending cuts, while Ms. Freeland said the government’s pandemic spending has proven to be good economic policy.
globeandmail Who believes the crypto guy ?
globeandmail I love how a guy who has no chance of PM for 3 years!!!...is making promises🙄
globeandmail Yeah. Poilievre prefers funding national security risks.
Oh PP , just GO AWAY !!!!
Why are there no Provincial or federal Conservative politicians participating in the federal inquiry into the the use of The Emergencies Act? Do they have something to hide?
I bet he casually avoided the fact we added 108k new jobs in October defying projections. Because you know, Trudeau is a fascist dictator ruining our economy, right?
Energy companies? Why not the other 27 sectors that need support there PEEPEE
Why isn’t PeePee shouting about Doug Ford’s Conservatives taking away Canadian Charter Rights to collective bargaining? It seems he was so concerned with that during the FreeDumbConvoy Hypocrite
Did he consult the insurance companies? They believe in climate change.