The conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said Monday that his party will launch his expensive platform on Tuesday, giving voters an idea of what a government led by him would do and where he would reduce to pay everything.
The launch of the platform comes the day after anticipated surveys close and less than a week before the day of the election.
Pailievre is the last important leader of the party to publish his plan after liberal leader Mark Carney and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh launched his during the weekend.
He was asked on Monday why the party has waited to launch the document with such a short time in the campaign, and if it is related to problems to solve some of the mathematics for what is expected to be an ambitious agenda, Pailievre said that the moment has nothing to do with accounting.
Pailievre has long promised to promulgate a “payment for use” or “dollar payment” law in its surveillance, which would require every dollar of the new governmental expenses to be matched with a cut to spend elsewhere.
Poilievre is launching some elements of large tickets that will have to be paid for cuts to other programs, or a considerable increase in income on the other side of the main book.
The conservative leader says that his plan to accelerate the development of natural resources of natural resources when cutting the bureaucracy will generate tens of billions of dollars in government income to help pay new measures, which makes deep cuts unnecessary.
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The conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has not yet published a expensive platform that describes his vision for the country, but says he will come ‘soon’. On Sunday, Pailievre pointed to the liberal platform, saying that “he would dispute the inflation tax.”
‘Middle class tax reduction’
Even so, Pailievre promises a “middle class tax cut” of $ 14 billion a year, which is more generous and, therefore, more expensive than what Carney is throwing.
It also promises to discard the GST in all new houses, which will cost the Federal Treasury about $ 1.56 billion a year in lost income, a measure that is again more expensive than Carney’s promise to discard the GST only for housing buyers for the first time.
Pailievre also promises to spend the defense to the target of the NATO of two percent of GDP by 2030, a multimillionaire commitment.
He has also promised to postpone the capital gains tax if an investor takes the income of a profit and reinvested them in Canada, an expense commitment of approximately $ 5 billion for each of the next two years.
Pailievre said that its platform will detail where it plans to reduce government spending to give it the funds to deploy money elsewhere, promising “a truly expensive platform that will reduce waste, taxes of axes, release the construction of housing, block criminals and bring home the country we love.”
Liberals say that Pailievre’s “dollar dollar commitment means that conservatives must make important cuts to pay what they say is $ 140 billion in new expenses announced during the campaign until now.
“The real plan of conservatives is to make cuts. What will reduce to coincide with those commitments, who will be vulnerable, and how much will these cuts weaken the economy of Canada?
Liberals say that Pailievre will need to reduce dental care, pharmaceuticals, child care, the national school program and “much more” to fulfill its expense commitments.
Pailievre has been vague about what he would do exactly with some of these relatively new liberal social programs, but he has said that at least he will maintain dental care for those who already have it, and “protect” child care.
Pailievre said Monday that the liberal position that massive cuts are approaching is false.
“Every time the liberals present the numbers, you must be afraid, a lot of fear, because their numbers are always wrong,” said Poilievre.
Cutting consultants
Pailievre said he has already presented “many savings” that will come with a conservative government to help pay the new commitments. On Sunday, Pailievre said he reduced external consultants for $ 10 billion.
It is difficult to determine how current the government spends on external consultants and advice, since it is not a unique line in the budget. Anyway, Pailievre has said you can find great savings.
Pailievre also promoted on Monday a plan to get rid of the “liberal programs that give free drugs”, an apparent reference to the so -called “safer supply” program of the government that gives recipes to people addicted to drugs and at risk of overdose. That is a relatively small budget article.
Pailievre also said on Monday that he would eliminate the “waste” guns of the government, which according to an analysis of the parliamentary budget officer will cost at least $ 756 million, plus the administration, a figure that probably increased since that report was written for the first time in 2021, due to inflation and addition of more than 800 firearms to the Banned list.
A conservative government will also “reduce bureaucracy, foreign aid brochures to corporate experts and other waste,” said Pailievre. He has also promised to define the CBC and the objective of the funds maintained in the tax havens.
And if those cuts do not fill the void, Pailievre said it has a plan to address a possible deficit: it will turbocate to the extraction of natural resources by eliminating what he calls anti-development laws, which will deliver new income to the federal government.
“It will create a massive boom, enriching provinces in Canada and generating $ 70 billion of additional income to finance our various programs,” Pailievre told reporters, saying that the figure was calculated by an “independent economist” and validated by “the former head of economic analysts of Statistics Canada.”
“We will unlock the power of our resource sector and stimulate economic growth,” he said.
Carney also promises to stimulate strong economic growth to help fill the government coffers, but did not factor that hypothetical unexpected gain when preparing its own platform, which also requires tens of billions of dollars of more expenses that Pailievre has condemned as “shocking.”
“As crazy and expensive as it was already Trudeau’s budget plan, Mark Carney is even worse,” said Poilievre.
