The leader of the Government House, Steven Mackinnon, and conservative leader Pierre Poilievre are presenting the priorities of their matches before the return of Parliament on Monday for his autumn session.
In an interview in Rosemary Barton Live That was broadcast on Sunday morning, Mackinnon said the federal government under Prime Minister Mark Carney will present a budget in October that “will draw an economic path for the country.”
He said that “there is no doubt” that Ottawa needs to act on several fronts, including addressing the United Canadian trade war that is damaging the Canadian economy and eliminating the GST in new houses.
All those investments and more will be expensive but necessary, Mackinnon said.
“The deficit will be substantial. We do not roof it in sugar. We have made these main investments this year. They are new, and that means that we will have to carefully analyze the expense. Therefore, a substantial deficit means difficult decisions.”
The last economic update obtained by Canadians from the federal government was in December 2024, before the president of the United States, Donald Trump, assumed the position and marked Canada with tariffs on a wide range of goods.
That update, eclipsed by chaos when the then Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland abruptly resignedHe showed that the federal deficit shot almost $ 62 billion. The liberals said the peak was mainly due to the unique costs.
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Mackinnon did not say when exactly the federal government would announce its autumn budget, and left that issue to finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne.
In terms of difficult options, Mackinnon said that Canadians “expect their governments to review the range of government services and programs from time to time” and “make sure we are delivering the maximum impact for taxpayers’ dollars.”
“We are certainly not doing it with any fixed objective, in terms of personnel or in terms of programs, but we are seeing what makes sense, which constitutes an investment in the future of Canada’s support for the vulnerable Canadians.”
Take energetic measures against crime
Mackinnon told the host Rosemary Barton that the liberals will present bills to address the crime in Canada, particularly in the reform of the bond and the creation of safe spaces around places of worship.
“We wanted to eliminate some doubt that when you see violent criminals who are inserted again in the community,” Mackinnon said. “That is something that must be addressed.”
When asked if the legislation would include a mandatory minimal judgment, Mackinnon said he does not want to go “too deep in the legislation” at this time “, but what he can expect is that the government acts, I believe, very decisively.”
This week, CBC News reported that the government is expected to enter such early legislation when people who intimidate and obstruct intimidating people who enter places of worship, cultural community centers and schools will be replied on Tuesday.
The Minister of Justice, Sean Fraser, said that the federal government is not responsible for “regulating people’s ability to be in a particular place”, but is trying to add criminal provisions that prohibit the obstruction of facilities such as synagogues and mosques.
A source with knowledge of the government’s plans said that Ottawa will propose three new crimes under the Criminal Code of Canada, including the creation of a new crime of hate crimes.
The government is also expected to propose a new crime of intimidation that would make illegal try to scare people so that they do not access religious or cultural buildings used by identifiable groups.
Pailievre describes conservative priorities
On Sunday morning, conservative leader Pierre Poilievre went to his Caucus in Ottawa and said that during the summer, the party “directed the debate on job security, inflation, the construction of the home, natural resources, crime, drugs and many other problems. And we are still beginning.”
Pailievre said that conservatives supported the liberal government in spring sitting in certain laws, such as the One Canadian Economy Law, because “we wanted to be a useful part of the solution.”
“We want the country to succeed. And that is why we need to take a look at Mr. Carney’s many promises and compare them with the results. Do the words coincide with the acts?”
Pailievre criticized the prime minister and argued that he does not address the problems of affordability and suffocated economic growth by not moving rapid enough in the main resources projects.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, talking to Catherine Cullen from CBC on Friday morning, says that building more liquefaction plants to process Canadian natural gas and increase international buyers, specifically in Asia, could help reduce global emissions.
“Unemployment is worse, the cost of living is worse, housing construction is worse, divisions are worse, tariffs are worse, crime is worse, immigration is worse. It is not what Canadians voted,” he said.
“What we are getting from Mark Carney is the same bait and liberal switch: say a thing and do the opposite,” said the conservative leader.
Pailievre said that conservatives will propose solutions to the problems they have identified, including push the municipalities to accelerate construction permits, limit immigration and pass the Canadian sovereignty law.
The proposed legislation returns to package many of the campaign promises of the party, including the drainage of the oil ban on the west coast, killing the limit of industrial emissions and eliminating the industrial carbon tax.
On Thursday, Carney announced the Initial section Of the projects, the federal government says that it will help to take off quickly, including the expansion of the production of liquefied natural gas in the British columbia, improving the port of Montreal and the construction of a copper mine in Saskatchewan.
Pailievre criticized the announcement and told his caucus “that six months have passed.” [Carney] He has not granted a permission for a single new construction project. “
