1. How giving the Liberals an ultimatum for a major increase in spending and a one month deadline for making that happen - i.e. crafting the legislation and getting it passed by the Senate (which normally takes months) - does anything but make the Bloc look disingenuous. The Bloc leader knows a one month deadlin…
1. How giving the Liberals an ultimatum for a major increase in spending and a one month deadline for making that happen - i.e. crafting the legislation and getting it passed by the Senate (which normally takes months) - does anything but make the Bloc look disingenuous. The Bloc leader knows a one month deadline isn't feasible for this, even if the Liberals supported it in principle.
2. If the Bloc leader really cared about seniors under 75 receiving more, why didn't he raise this in 2022 when the Liberals raised OAS for the 75+ age group. He's been sitting on this for over two years? I don't believe this for a second.
3. How is threatening to bring down a progressive government in a month going to give the Bloc what it allegedly wants, when doing so only helps Poilievre who has voted against every financial support since CERB, and will never honour the Bloc's motion for raising OAS for seniors under 75,
None of this adds up.
Furthermore, Trudeau is principled beyond his rejection of the Bloc's motion. He is the only leader who hasn't flip-flopped on carbon pricing which is foundational to moving away from fossil fuels; and you can include Poilievre among the flip-flopping hypocrites because he supported a carbon tax multiple times in his career. As did Stephen Harper who first proposed the carbon tax in 2008. Of course, Poilievre will never honour the Bloc's motion, he wants spending ended. That Poilievre supported a motion contradicting his own campaign is just proof Poilievre has no principles. He only voted for this because he will support any measure that facilitates bringing down the government.
The Bloc, the NDP, and the CPC are unprincipled populist jerks and I can't support any of them.
Um... the Liberals did exempt home heating oil from the carbon tax. That was mainly to garner votes in the Atlantic Provinces, as Minister Gudie Hutchings publicly admitted. The Liberals said it was because of the financial hardship the carbon tax would otherwise cause. But once you start down that slippery road...
They exempted home heating oil temporarily in one region. And Gudie Hutchings was full of erroneous stupidity when she claimed any province that elected liberal MLAs would get the break. There is no constitutional relationship between provincial parties calling themselves "liberal" and the federal Liberal Party. The BC Liberals now calling itself BC United were never liberal. How that bozo became a cabinet minister is beyond comprehension.
The Bloc needs to explain:
1. How giving the Liberals an ultimatum for a major increase in spending and a one month deadline for making that happen - i.e. crafting the legislation and getting it passed by the Senate (which normally takes months) - does anything but make the Bloc look disingenuous. The Bloc leader knows a one month deadline isn't feasible for this, even if the Liberals supported it in principle.
2. If the Bloc leader really cared about seniors under 75 receiving more, why didn't he raise this in 2022 when the Liberals raised OAS for the 75+ age group. He's been sitting on this for over two years? I don't believe this for a second.
3. How is threatening to bring down a progressive government in a month going to give the Bloc what it allegedly wants, when doing so only helps Poilievre who has voted against every financial support since CERB, and will never honour the Bloc's motion for raising OAS for seniors under 75,
None of this adds up.
Furthermore, Trudeau is principled beyond his rejection of the Bloc's motion. He is the only leader who hasn't flip-flopped on carbon pricing which is foundational to moving away from fossil fuels; and you can include Poilievre among the flip-flopping hypocrites because he supported a carbon tax multiple times in his career. As did Stephen Harper who first proposed the carbon tax in 2008. Of course, Poilievre will never honour the Bloc's motion, he wants spending ended. That Poilievre supported a motion contradicting his own campaign is just proof Poilievre has no principles. He only voted for this because he will support any measure that facilitates bringing down the government.
The Bloc, the NDP, and the CPC are unprincipled populist jerks and I can't support any of them.
Um... the Liberals did exempt home heating oil from the carbon tax. That was mainly to garner votes in the Atlantic Provinces, as Minister Gudie Hutchings publicly admitted. The Liberals said it was because of the financial hardship the carbon tax would otherwise cause. But once you start down that slippery road...
They exempted home heating oil temporarily in one region. And Gudie Hutchings was full of erroneous stupidity when she claimed any province that elected liberal MLAs would get the break. There is no constitutional relationship between provincial parties calling themselves "liberal" and the federal Liberal Party. The BC Liberals now calling itself BC United were never liberal. How that bozo became a cabinet minister is beyond comprehension.