QUESTION PERIOD — Finance
Temporary Tax Measures
November 27, 2024
Leader, the GST tax trick announced by the Prime Minister last week will be impossible to administer. A big box store will have the resources to figure out whether a product is exempt. A small toy store owner will not. This government thinks Canadians will wait until December 14 to put up their Christmas tree. We see them everywhere we go right now, leader, and it is still November. Mixed-spirit drinks will be exempt but only if they have less than 7% alcohol. Children’s shoes will be exempt but only if they have an insole of less than 24.25 centimetres. How ridiculous, leader. I could go on and on.
Who came up with this idiotic idea?
Justin Trudeau.
Was it the Prime Minister himself?
Thank you for your question. I look forward to the legislation that will implement that change arriving in this chamber, sooner rather than later, I hope, and I look forward to those questions and many others being posed during our study of the bill.
I’m asking you the question now. Where is the answer?
About six weeks after this NDP-Liberal regime claims this two-month GST cut will end, they are going to raise the tax that has made everything more expensive, leader: The carbon tax is scheduled to go up another 19% on April 1.
Leader, don’t struggling Canadians need permanent tax relief? Wouldn’t that help them more than this temporary tax trick and bribery of Canadians?
The measure introduced was to provide a targeted and, indeed, as you put it, limited effort to help Canadians during this holiday season. It was done in consideration of the fiscal limitations that this government has imposed upon itself in order to be responsible. It will continue to find the right balance of helping Canadians and doing so in a responsible way.
