Trudeau "Axes" the Tax. Poilievre Hates It. Weird!

[@shawnaford5540]

Skipping non working seniors, and disabled with the $250 is admitting that government thinks poverty is a non issue.

[@theowoytowich9959]

This GST break is all based on borrowed money. More interest and taxes in the future. How sad.

[@justjo6305]

Plus Ralph stopped the Alberta health payments

[@RealTalkRJ]

Great point! Do you think that was the right move? -rpj

[@moozilla]

​@@RealTalkRJnope. Just cost us all elsewhere

[@marblackCanada]

There are certain things that should be on an expanded list of necessities, like toilet paper, diapers both for children, and adults.etc. made permanent.

[@RealTalkRJ]

Could DEFINITELY expand the list. -rpj

[@claudettelacombe3273]

Ralph bucks - As a single mom, I put it toward food etc. But my children's Ralph bucks gave my kids a chance to feel rich ($50) and the rest went into their invesments. Trudeau GST holiday - Every penny counts for my daughter who is a single mom now and $250 will help us both with the mortgage. Me thinks the people who keep bashing the idea have the money to donate to food banks and Secret Santa charities this month.

[@theowoytowich9959]

This tax break is all based on borrowed money. So this will result in increases in interest payments and in more taxes in the future. Short term may help, long term not good.

[@RealTalkRJ]

I forgot about the kids' Ralph Bucks! -rpj

[@mmateri]

A two month tax holiday is stupid. Get rid of the GST completely, get rid of income tax. Get rid of the carbon tax. Get rid of property tax. Taxation is theft.

[@RealTalkRJ]

Now we're talking! -rpj

[@theowoytowich9959]

If taxation is theft don't go to your doctor or hospital or send your children to school. Taxes pay for this

[@ImpulseToAdrenaline]

Anyone who thinks stopping GST is a good thing, is seriously missing a few brain cells. Saving $3 isn't helping anyone. Stopping the carbon tax from raising again in a few months(or scrapping it all together) will help people!.

[@murraytown4]

As the increased carbon tax rebate WILL help people as well. But this does not fit your narrative.

[@ImpulseToAdrenaline]

@@murraytown4 Thinking a tax on people somehow helps people seems to be your narrative. But no carbon tax will help people. It's a tax on everything.

[@murraytown4]

⁠@@ImpulseToAdrenaline. My rebate is greater than I pay. It pays for my gas for a year. But you do you and your disinformation.

[@chadtosh6831]

@@murraytown4For most of us, this carbon tax rebate does not even come close to covering the increased costs. Could be why the conservatives are going to get the biggest majority in Canadian history. Apparently more people feel like me other than experiencing what you are.

[@dwaynewladyka577]

@ImpulseToAdrenaline Scrapping the carbon tax is meaningless. It won't reduce inflation. In Canada, the carbon tax is a Conservative idea to begin with. In 2007, Ed Stelmach, an Alberta PC premier, gave Alberta Canada's first ever carbon tax. Ed Stelmach is a good friend of Stephen Harper, and he is also a CPC supporter. Stephen Harper praised Ed Stelmach for his carbon tax, and Stephen Harper even said that there has to be a price put on carbon, at around $65 per tone. Former CPC leaders, Andrew Scheer, and Erin O'Toole, also support the carbon tax, but they won't call it that. Preston Manning, who was behind Danielle Smith and a bunch of her Wildrose MLAs, crossing the floor to join Jim Prentice's Alberta PC party, is also a longtime supporter of the carbon tax. The oil companies have said that they supported the carbon tax for many years, way before Justin Trudeau and the Liberals were in power. The UCP never got rid of Alberta's carbon tax, like they said they would, but they increased it exponentially to outdo the federal Liberals, with their own carbon tax. In addition, on April 1st, of this year, Danielle Smith reinstated Alberta's fuel tax (which the Alberta implemented), and is around 450% more in cost than the federal Liberal's carbon tax. The UCP increased multiple costs for Albertans, that are far more expensive than the federal Liberal's carbon tax.

[@trevorrose6223]

I am lost how Ryan thought the conservatives would be on board with borrowing 6 billion for handing out checks when we are already deep in dept. And why you would think he would support anything JT is doing. He wants to Axe the carbon tax not give a small break on a few things for two months.

[@dwaynewladyka577]

Danielle Smith is also a hypocrite, when it comes to affordability, and with vote buying. As premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith has already done well over $50 billion in very costly debacles and mistakes, including blowing billions of dollars on various voter bribery schemes. They include blowing $1.2 billion on the new hockey arena for Calgary, which Danielle Smith originally opposed, when she was the Wildrose party leader, and as a radio talk show host, because she said it didn't make any economic sense, blew around $2 billion on the gas tax holiday vote buying scheme, made it look like the UCP were reducing power costs for Albertans, but this was merely a loan to the power companies in Alberta, which power consumers must now pay back on their power bills, and so on. Ralph Klein's deregulation of electricity, TransAlta manipulating power prices in Alberta, and economic witholding from the UCP, are why Albertans pay the highest power prices in Canada. Ralph Klein did the well over $30 billion electricity deregulation debacle, and the $10 billion Power Purchase Agreements debacle. In 2010-11, TransAlta was manipulating power prices in Alberta, and in 2015, they were found guilty and were given a $56 million fine, which they have only passed onto the power consumers in Alberta. Economic witholding from the UCP has cost Albertans well over $100 billion, since June of 2020. Danielle Smith had promised before the provincial election in 2023, that if the UCP were re-elected, that Albertans would see personal tax cuts, which would be around $750 a year in savings for an individual, and around $1,500 a year in savings for a family of 4. It's now nearly 2025, and those personal tax cuts haven't happened. Danielle Smith was also upset at the federal Liberals for exempting Atlantic Canada from the carbon tax for home heating oil, yet on April 1, 2024, Danielle Smith quietly reinstated the provincial fuel tax for Alberta (which the Alberta PCs put in), and is around 450% more costlier than the federal Liberal's carbon tax. Alberta got the first ever carbon tax in Canada in 2007, under Alberta PC, Ed Stelmach, who is a CPC supporter and is a good friend of Stephen Harper. The UCP never got rid of Alberta's carbon tax, like they said they would, but they increased it exponentially, to outdo the federal Liberals, with their own carbon tax. Alberta has the highest rate of inflation in Canada, the highest power prices in Canada, due to Ralph Klein's electricity deregulation, TransAlta manipulating power prices, and economic witholding from the UCP, the highest rental increases in Canada, in Edmonton and in Calgary, the highest rate of food bank usage in Canada, the highest insurance costs in Canada, and the highest rate of unemployment in Canada, outside of Newfoundland and Labrador. Danielle Smith is also pursuing the very unpopular Alberta Provincial Pension Plan, and the very unpopular Alberta Provincial Police Force, which she campaigned on when she was the Wildrose party leader in 2012. Albertans said no to that, and the Wildrose party were defeated to Alison Redford and the Alberta PCs. Danielle Smith intentionally kept off the very unpopular Alberta Provincial Pension Plan and the very unpopular Alberta Provincial Police Force off of the provincial election agenda in 2023, to avoid seeing the UCP get defeated. Pierre Poilievre was in the CPC, when Canadians lost their life savings in the $35 billion income trust fund debacle. Pierre Poilievre is a career politician, who has a very substantial political pension. He is good at babbling platitudes, and that's about it.

[@alisonbarratt3772]

U rambled on so much I didn't read any of it

[@dwaynewladyka577]

@alisonbarratt3772 I didn't ramble on with anything. The hypocrites and the problem in Alberta are from the Conservatives. Why even bother responding, if you didn't read what I wrote?

[@chadtosh6831]

@@dwaynewladyka577hard to read and digest that much disinformation. Must have been pent up since there were no shows last week. You got really windy in your comment this time. You neglect to mention how much debt Notley racked up in her four short years.

[@anythingforabuck]

@@dwaynewladyka577 she's speaking for most of us that see your comments and laugh.

[@JonathanSicoli]

​@@anythingforabuckin other words, your side doesn't like to make their voices heard, on a pseudo-anonymous comment section. Could it be because their views are...... unpopular?

[@7thpilot]

PP will not come on Ryans show not sure why maybe he has seen the show when Danielle comes on and then as soon as she goes off Ryan gets someone from the left to attack everything she says...

[@murraytown4]

Well, she gives plenty of fodder for those attacks…it’s all self-inflicted.

[@7thpilot]

@@murraytown4 Only to the uneducated that dont understand economics or business, nice of you to own up to your weaknesses !!

[@RealTalkRJ]

You think Poilievre's afraid of a negative review? Real Talk regularly welcomes guests from across the political spectrum - that's not a liability. We "fact checked" Naheed Nenshi with a couple right wingers the day after his appearance...or did you miss that one? I can guarantee you Premier Smith's feelings aren't hurt, @7thpilot. -rpj

[@7thpilot]

Well how funny the fact checkers words where Holly could of got you 5 fact checkers to fact check your fact checker, very weak defense my man!!