English transcript

It's a tale of two Canadas under this Prime Minister, one where your portfolio grows and

the other where your paycheck shrinks.

The government's own data confirms it.

The wealth gap is widening, and nearly half of Canadians are $200 within insolvency.

That's what the inflationary Liberal taxes and spending does.

It makes gas and groceries and everything else more expensive, and yesterday, Conservatives

put forward a plan to remove all of the federal taxes on gas and diesel, and the Liberals

voted against that.

Do they love the tax that much, or do they just hate that the idea came from Conservatives?

The Honourable Minister of Energy and Natural Resources.

Mr. Speaker, we're not waiting for the Conservatives.

We've already cut taxes by 28 cents a litre.

That's not it.

We've cut taxes for 22 million Canadians.

We've cut the GST.

We've introduced the groceries and benefits benefit.

And we've reduced the cost of a home in my riding and in all of Ontario by $200,000.

The Honourable Member for Thornhill.

He could have cut the taxes by 25 cents two days ago, and he chose not to.

Yet he's patting himself on the back for something that the government couldn't do properly and

wouldn't have done at all if they weren't dragged there kicking and screaming.

The Prime Minister's so-called tax cut left 15 cents a litre on Canadians' gas bills at

a time when they're struggling and the government gets a windfall in their pocket.

And it's only for a couple of months, meaning that the tax returns at 100% in September.

So why did they not just properly take off all of the taxes, all 25 cents, for the rest of the year?

Conservatives love to talk about the United States.

So we've reduced the tax on a litre of gasoline by 28 cents.

The United States? Zero.

We know how to do affordability.