By Staff
June 17th, 2016
BURLINGTON, ON
Conservative MP for Halton, Lisa Raitt threw two questions to the Liberal finance minister.
Member of Parliament for Halton, Conservative Lisa Raitt
Mr. Speaker, the finance minister is trying to strong-arm the premiers in this country to support his plan to increase CPP by over $3,000 a year. That is a tax nobody can afford. Customers will pay higher prices for everything.
Employees will be taking home less in their pay. We have already seen small businesses, this morning, begging the Minister of Finance to stop.
Why will he not listen?
Mr. Speaker, we want the minister to actually listen to Canadians. He does not want to hear how his plan is going to cost Canadian families. He does not want to hear how his plan is going to force businesses to fire employees. He does not want to hear how, actually, families will go home with fewer pay cheques. Even his own advisers have told him that 83% of Canadian households do not face a pension crisis.
When is the minister going to stop taxing Canadians in order to pay for his social engineering?
I suppose the present government should listen much the same as the previous one did?
We should not retreat back to those dark days.
Elections have consequences. Majority victories have consequences.