Parliament fiddles while Canada burns
"Mr. Speaker, the finance minister pretended to have an inflationary epiphany back in November. She admitted that deficits lead to inflation finally. She said that she did not want to pour fuel on the fire of inflation," Jasraj Singh Hallan, the Conservative finance critic, told the House on Monday.
Unless or until the Liberals agree, the Conservatives say they'll do everything they can to tie up the business of the House — interrupting debate with points of order, forcing unnecessary votes and moving hundreds of amendments to the budget. Since changing leaders, the Conservative Party finds itself unable again to say what it would do instead. Poilievre will only say that "technology, not taxes" is the optimal path forward.
It is also necessary to consider the costs, trade-offs and feasibility of any policy to reduce emissions, no matter how urgent or noble the goal. No one — either on the political right or left — should get away with pretending that emissions will be reduced magically.— and that the future of climate change is already here.It should be impossible to worry about the cost of living without also worrying about.
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