1 week Ago By Postmedia News
Article content We endorse Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre for prime minister because he has consistently been right on every major economic issue confronting Canadians, while the Liberals have consistently been wrong. The proof is that Mark Carney and the Liberals have adopted the Conservative positions on those issues. Carney has said that during their decade in power, the Liberals lost control of immigration, federal deficits and debt, hired too many civil servants, overspent and overtaxed the middle class.
All of those positions — including the Liberals’ promise of a tax cut for the middle class — were advocated by Poilievre while Carney was in the private sector advocating higher carbon taxes and economically destructive “net zero” policies. Carney even agreed with Poilievre on the Liberals’ signature policy of a national carbon tax by scrapping the consumer portion of it, which the Conservative leader had been advocating for years. But Carney won’t do what Poilievre will — kill the industrial carbon tax, which will continue to increase the cost of living for Canadians.
The Liberals — again adopting a position first advocated by Poilievre — have also announced they will scrap their planned increases to the capital gains tax. On the economy, the Liberals have been a disaster. Statistics Canada reports that Canada’s real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, which measures economic output per person adjusted for inflation and is a widely accepted metric for measuring a nation’s standard of living, fell by 1.
4% in 2024, following a decline of 1.3% in 2023. During the Liberals’ decade in power, with their unrelenting attack on our vital energy sector, Canada experienced the worst economic growth since the government of R.
B. Bennett during the Great Depression. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has projected that if nothing changes, Canada will have the worst economic growth among developed countries from 2020 to 2060.
On fighting a tariff war against U.S. President Donald Trump, Carney acknowledged the Liberals have left Canada ill-equipped to defend itself.
As he said during the Liberal leadership race: “Our economy over the last five years has been driven by a big increase in the labour force, which was largely because of a surge in immigration ...
and by government spending that grew over 9% year after year after year — twice the growth rate of our economy. So our economy was weak before we got to the point of these threats from president Trump.” Before she resigned as finance minister, Chrystia Freeland warned that the Liberals, by exceeding their target of a $40.
1-billion deficit for the 2023-24 fiscal year by 54%, at $61.9 billion, left Canada without the needed resources to fight a tariff war. Given their record, with the same people advising Carney who previously advised Justin Trudeau, giving the Liberals a fourth mandate will lead to economic disaster.
The only real change, for the better, will come from Poilievre and the Conservatives..
