Pierre Poilievre bemoans the cost of living in Toronto

>> I’M GOING TO HAVE TO CUT YOU OFF. I’M SO SORRY. PIERRE POILIEVRE IS HOSTING A NEWS CONFERENCE IN TORONTO. LET’S LISTEN TO THE CONSERVATIVE LEADER AS HE SPEAKS THIS MORNING IN TORONTO. [ Speaking French ] >> BECAUSE OF THE INFLATION INCREASES AND THE BUREAUCRACY… WE HAVE ONE IN FIVE CANADIANS

SKIPPING MEALS BECAUSE THEY CANNOT PAY FOR GROCERIES. WE HAVE 1.5 MILLION WHO MUST GO TO A FOOD BANK BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THEIR FOOD IS TOO EXPENSIVE. WE HAVE NINE OUT OF 10 YOUNG PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THEY WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO BUY A HOUSE. THAT’S NEVER BEEN THE CASE

BEFORE JUSTIN TRUDEAU. WE HAVE PEOPLE LIVING IN TENTS. NURSES WHO LIVE IN THEIR CARS. A CARPENTER THAT I MET IN NORTHERN ONTARIO WHO LIVES IN A PARKING LOT BECAUSE OF THE INCREASE OF RENTS THAT WE SEE AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF JUSTIN TRUDEAU. JUSTIN TRUDEAU IS NOT WORTH IT. HE’S NOT WORTH IT.

WE NEED TO REPLACE HIM. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT IT WASN’T LIKE THIS BEFORE JUSTIN TRUDEAU AND IT WON’T BE LIKE THIS AFTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU. WE WILL USE THE COMMON SENSE TO FIX THE PROBLEMS THAT TRUDEAU HAS CAUSED. WE WILL LOWER PRICES BY ELIMINATING TAXES AND INFLATION. WE WILL MAKE PAYCHECKS STRONGER

BY REDUCING TAXES SO THAT CANADIANS CAN BRING BACK — CAN BRING MORE OF THEIR PAY HOME. WE WILL MAKE HOUSES AT APARTMENTS MORE AFFORDABLE BY INSISTING THAT MUNICIPALITIES ACCELERATE CONSTRUCTION PERMITS AND OTHERWISE THEY WILL LOSE INFRASTRUCTURE FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. WE WILL MAKE OUR STREETS SAFER BY PUTTING REAL CRIMINALS IN PRISON.

THAT IS COMMON SENSE AND THAT’S WHAT I WILL BRING BACK ONCE I AM PRIME MINISTER. >> IT JUST INFLATION HAS STRUCK AGAIN. TRUDEAU’S INFLATIONARY TAXES AND DEFICITS HAVE CENT PRICES RISING AGAIN WITH INFORMATION ON THE MARCH. TRUDEAU TOLD US THAT HE HAD THE PROBLEM FIXED LAST MONTH.

IT TURNED OUT THAT WAS NOT TRUE. HIS CARBON TAX IS DRIVING UP GAS AND GROCERIES. THE $60 BILLION OF ADDITIONAL INFLATIONARY DEFICITS HE ADDED LAST MONTH — LAST BUDGET ARE NOW GETTING UP THE GOODS WE BUY IN THE INTEREST WE PAY. THIS WAS ENTIRELY PREDICTABLE AND WE WEREN’T IN IT WOULD BE

THE CASE. WORSE. AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF TRUDEAU, HOUSING COSTS HAVE DOUBLED. THE RENT HAS DOUBLED. MORTGAGE PAYMENTS HAVE DOUBLED. DOWN PAYMENTS HAVE DOUBLED. HERE IN TORONTO, IT NOW TAKES 25 YEARS FOR THE AVERAGE PERSON TO SAVE FOR A DOWN PAYMENT. BEFORE TRUDEAU, YOU COULD PAY OFF AN ENTIRE MORTGAGE AND 25 YEARS.

NOW THAT’S HOW LONG IT TAKES TO GET A MORTGAGE. RENT HAS RISEN… AND NOW, I USED TO TALK ABOUT THE 35 WORLD SEARCHING IN HIS MOM’S — LIVING IN HIS MOM’S BASEMENT. NOW THE WORRY IS THE 35-YEAR-OLD AND HIS MOM WILL BE EVICTED AND MOVING INTO A TIGHT.

THERE ARE 10 CITIES IN ALMOST EVERY MAJOR CENTRE AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF TRUDEAU. I HAVE A CARPENTER WHO LIVES IN HIS CAR. WE HAVE SEEN YEARS IN PENTICTON LIVE IN PARKING LOTS. MIDDLE-CLASS SENIORS. MIDDLE-CLASS SENIORS IN CANADA AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF JUSTIN TRUDEAU. THE GOOD NEWS IS TO ALL OF THOSE

PEOPLE WHO ARE HUNGRY, WHO WORRY ABOUT LOSING THEIR HOMES, WHO BELIEVE THEY HAVE NO FUTURE BECAUSE THEY CAN’T AFFORD ONE AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF TRUDEAU, THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THERE IS HOPE. CANADA WAS NOT LIKE THIS BEFORE TRUDEAU AND IT WILL NOT BE LIKE THIS AFTER HE’S GONE.

WE’RE GOING TO TURN THE HURT THAT HE HAS CAUSED INTO THE HOPE THAT CANADIANS NEED. A COMMONSENSE CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT WILL BRING HOME LOWER PRICES BY AXING THE CARBON TAX AND BY CAPPING SPENDING AND CUTTING WASTE TO BALANCE THE BUDGET AND BRING DOWN INFLATION AND INTEREST RATES. WE WILL BRING HOME POWERFUL

PAYCHECKS BY LOWERING INCOME TAXES. HARD WORK ONCE AGAIN PAYS OFF. WE WILL BRING HOMES PEOPLE CAN AFFORD BY REMOVING BUREAUCRACY AND TAXES… BUREAUCRATS AND GATEKEEPERS BLOCKS CONSTRUCTION. I WILL REQUIRE BIG CITIES PERMIT 15 PERCENT MORE HOMEBUILDING PER YEAR OR LOSE THEIR FEDERAL INFRASTRUCTURE GRANTS. THOSE THAT BEAT THAT GOAL WILL

GET A BUILDING BONUS AND I WILL REQUIRE EVERY FEDERALLY FUNDED TRANSIT STATION BE SURROUNDED BY HIGH DENSITY APARTMENTS SO THAT OUR SENIORS AND USE CAN LIVE BESIDE THE BUS AND TRAIN. WE WILL SELL OFF 600 FEDERAL BUILDINGS. THE HOMES THAT WE WILL PICK PUT ROOFS OVERHEAD FOR OUR WORKING CLASS PEOPLE.

THOSE HOMES WILL BE IN SAFE STREETS. WE WILL BRING IN JAIL AND NOT BAIL FOR REPEAT VIOLENT OFFENDERS. WE WILL INVEST IN TREATMENT AND RECOVERY. NOT MORE TAX FUNDED DRUGS, TO PUT AN END TO 10 CITIES AND BRING OUR LOVED ONES HOME DRUG-FREE. TODAY I’M CALLING ON JUSTIN TRUDEAU TO RECOGNIZE INFLATION

PRICES HE HAS CAUSED AND ANNOUNCED THAT HE IS AXING HIS CARBON TAX AND PUTTING IN PLACE A PLAN TO GET RID OF HIS INFLATIONARY DEFICITS. WE ARE PREPARED BECAUSE OF THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION TO PUT OUR DIFFERENCES ASIDE AND WORK WITH HIM TO ASK HIS CARBON TAX

AND BALANCE THE BUDGET TO BRING HOME LOWER PRICES BECAUSE WE WILL ALWAYS PUT CANADIANS FIRST. IT’S COMMON SENSE. THE COMMONSENSE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE, UNITED FOR OUR COMMON HOME. [ Speaking French ] >> THERE’S A BUNCH OF CUTS THAT THE LIBERALS HAVE PROMISED BUT HAVE NEVER BEEN DELIVERED. JUSTIN TRUDEAU PROMISED HE WOULD

ELIMINATE $3 BILLION OF SPENDING WHEN ARRIVING IN POWER. HE’S FOUND NO SAVINGS. HOWEVER,, HE INFLATED THE COST OF CONTRACTS TO FIRMS LIKE MCKENZIE AND OTHER CONNECTED FIRMS AND EXPENSE FIRMS WHICH HAS DOUBLED UP TO $21 BILLION. THAT’S A LOT OF WASTE FOR WORK THAT COULD BE DONE WITHIN THE GOVERNMENT INSTEAD OF BEING

CONTRACTED TO LARGE BUSINESSES WHO CHARGE US $2000 A DAY FOR EACH CONSULTANT. THAT’S JUST AN EXAMPLE. THEY ARRIVE CANNOT, ANOTHER WASTE OF MONEY. $54 MILLION. THESE TYPES OF SPENDING WASTE OUR MONEY AND I SUGGEST A LAW THAT WOULD FORCE MINISTERS TO FIND ONE DOLLAR IN SAVINGS FOR EACH NEW DOLLAR OF SPENDING.

THIS WILL FORCE DISCIPLINE THAT EACH SINGLE MOTHER, EACH BUSINESSMAN, EACH PERSON OF THE WORKING CLASS HAS TO DO IN THEIR OWN PERSONAL LIFE. POLITICIANS SHOULD DO THE SAME. THANK YOU. >> YOU THINK 15 BILLION IS ENOUGH? >> THEY WILL NEVER DO IT. SHE CAN GIVE ANY NUMBER, ANY AMOUNT BUT JUSTIN TRUDEAU IS

UNABLE TO DELIVER BECAUSE HE IS INCOMPETENT AND HE LOVES WASTING MONEY. HE’S NEVER GOING TO RESPECT HIS COMMITMENTS FOR SPENDING. HE PROMISED A $10 BILLION DEFICIT AND NOW HE HAS ADDED MORE THAN 500 BILLION TO OUR NATIONAL DEFICIT. WE CANNOT TRUST JUSTIN TRUDEAU WHEN IT COMES TO OUR MONEY

BECAUSE HE IS IT INCOMPETENT AND LOVES SPENDING OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY BECAUSE HE NEVER ASKED TO PAY THE BILLS. HE’S NOT WORTH OUR TIME. >> DO YOU SUPPORT CUTTING FROM THE FEDERAL BUDGET? >> WE CAN’T TRUST JUSTIN TRUDEAU WITH OUR MONEY. HE WON’T ACHIEVE THESE SAVINGS BECAUSE HE NEVER DIES.

WHEN HE GOT ELECTED, HE PROMISED HE WOULD FIND $3 BILLION IN SAVINGS AND HE STARTED A PROCESS GUESS WHAT, THEY FOUND AFTER LOOKING IN ALL OF THE CORNERS OF THE GOVERNMENT, THEY COULDN’T SAVE A PENNY BUT THEY WOULD COME UP WITH A BUNCH OF IDEAS FOR EVEN MORE SPENDING.

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP. JUSTIN TRUDEAU WILL NEVER FIND SAVINGS BECAUSE HE IS INCOMPETENT WITH MONEY, HE BELIEVES BUDGET BALANCE THEMSELVES AND HE WILL SIMPLY PRINT THE MONEY, BORROW THE MONEY, OR TAX LIMITING FROM A HARD-WORKING CANADIANS. A PIERRE POILIEVRE GOVERNMENT WILL ROUTE OUT WASTE, MISMANAGEMENT AND CORRUPTION.

IT WILL BRING IN A DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR LOT REQUIRING POLITICIANS TO FIND ONE DOLLAR OF SAVINGS FOR EVERY ONE DOLLAR OF NEW SPENDING. THIS LAW ALLOWED THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION IN THE STATES TO BALANCE ITS BUDGET AND PAYOFF FOR BILLION DOLLARS OF DEBT TO THE U.S. AND IT’S SOMETHING WE

COULD USE AS A HARD DISCIPLINE, THE SAME DISCIPLINE THAT WORKERS FOLLOW EVERY DAY IN MANAGING THEIR MOTHER TO BE — MONEY TO BE THE DISCIPLINE THAT WE FOLLOW. WE’RE GOING TO TO BALANCE THE BUDGET TO BRING HOME LOWER INFLATION AND LOWER INTEREST RATES. THANK YOU. >> WITH THE GOVERNMENT…

>> IN 1972, THE BILTMORE HOUSES THEN REBUILT LAST YEAR. THINK ABOUT THAT. 50 YEARS AGO WE BUILT MORE HOMES THAN WE DID LAST YEAR. LET’S DO THE MATH. IN 1972, CANADA’S POPULATION WAS 2.2 MILLION PEOPLE — 22 MILLION PEOPLE. 22 MILLION CANADIANS, WE BUILT 250,000 HOMES. LAST YEAR OUR POPULATION WAS

39 MILLION PEOPLE. WE DON’T TO HUNDRED AND 19,000 HOMES. AT NEARLY DOUBLE THE POPULATION, WE ARE BUILDING FEWER HOUSES AND WE EXPECT TO BUILD 32 PERCENT FEWER HOMES THIS YEAR. WHY IS THIS? TRUDEAU KEEPS SHOVELING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS INTO MUNICIPAL LEVEL GATEKEEPERS TO BLOCK CONSTRUCTION. WITH THE SECOND SLOWEST BUILDING

PERMITS OF ANY COUNTRY IN THE OECD BECAUSE COST OF DEVELOPMENT CHARGES HAS GONE UP 900 PERCENT IN SOME MUNICIPALITIES. GOVERNMENT COST AT $1.2 MILLION TO THE COST OF EVERY UNIT OF HOUSING THAT IS NEWLY BUILT IN VANCOUVER. 350 THOUSAND DOLLARS IN THE CITY OF TORONTO. WE CANNOT AFFORD TO GIVE MORE

MONEY TO THE SAME MUNICIPAL GATEKEEPERS TO BLOCK HOUSING AND CONSTRUCTION AND THAT’S WHY MY COMMONSENSE PLAN IS TO REQUIRE CITIES TO PERMIT 15 PERCENT MORE HOMEBUILDING OR I WILL PULL BACK THEIR FEDERAL PLANS. KNOWS THAT BEAT THE TARGET WILL GET A BUILDING BONUS. I REQUIRE EVERY FEDERALLY FUNDED STATION AND HIGH DENSITY

APARTMENTS AROUND… THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF FEDERAL LAND TO BUILD. WE WILL REMOVE GATEKEEPERS AND BUILT HOMES THAT WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE CAN AFFORD, JUST LIKE THEY COULD AFFORD THEM EIGHT YEARS AGO. I DO SUPPORT CONSTRUCTION ACROSS CANADA. WE HAVE THE FEWEST HOMES PER CAPITA OF ANY COUNTRY IN THE G-7

EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE BY FAR THE MOST PLANS TO BUILD ON. THAT IS BECAUSE OF GOVERNMENT GATEKEEPING AND REGULATORY RULES THAT STAND IN THE WAY. I WAS SPEAKING TO A DEVELOPER IN OTTAWA THE OTHER DAY. HE TELLS ME THAT HE WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE A PERMIT TO START

BUILDING IN JUNE AND THEY SAID, DELAYED TILL JULY. I MET WITH HIM IN AUGUST AND THEY SAID THEY ARE PUMPING IT TILL OCTOBER BECAUSE THE PLANTER IS ON VACATION. THAT’S JUST THE LAST FOUR MONTHS. THIS IS 1700 HOMES HE WANTS TO BUILD WHILE WE HAVE PEOPLE LIVING IN TENT CITIES.

ITS CRISIS AND LAST THING WE NEED IS TO GIVE MORE FEDERAL TAX DOLLARS TO INCOMPETENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT GATEKEEPERS TO BLOCK CONSTRUCTION. WE NEED TO GET TOUGH ON GATEKEEPERS AND TELL THEM TO GET OUT OF THE WAY AND LET BUILDERS BUILD OR THEY WILL LOSE FEDERAL GRANTS. THAT IS THE ONLY WAY WE ARE

GOING TO INCENTIVIZE FASTER CHEAPER BUILDER PERMITS TO BUILD, BUILD, AND BUILD. >> CAN YOU SAY THAT IN FRENCH? >> WE HAVE THE LEAST AMOUNT OF HOMES PER CAPITA OF ALL THE G-7 COUNTRIES. EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE THE LARGEST AMOUNT OF LAND TO BUILD. IT’S BECAUSE IT TAKES TOO LONG

TO GET A CONSTRUCTION PERMIT. MONTRÉAL BASED ON A STUDY FROM THE ECONOMIC INSTITUTE, MONTRÉAL … WINNIPEG WAS SUED BY A HOME CONSTRUCTION BECAUSE — CONSTRUCTOR BECAUSE THE CITY WANTED TO BUILD HOMES CLOSE TO PUBLIC TRANSIT. JUSTIN TRUDEAU IS GETTING MORE MONEY, HE’S FEEDING THE BUREAUCRACY. I WILL TELL MARCH MUNICIPALITIES

THAT THEY NEED TO ACCELERATE AND REDUCE THE COST OF CONSTRUCTION PERMITS OR I WILL REMOVE THEIR MONEY. I WILL ASK MUNICIPALITIES FOR AN INCREASE IN CONSTRUCTION PERMITS AND THOSE WILL RECEIVE A BONUS. WE WILL INSIST THAT EACH PUBLIC TRANSIT STATION THAT HAS CONSTRUCTION PERMITS FOR LARGE APARTMENTS SO THAT YOUNG PEOPLE

SO THEY CAN LIVE CLOSE TO BUSES THAT WE WILL SELL 6000 BUILDINGS AND FEDERAL ACRES TO BUILD AND BUILD. IT’S COMMON SENSE AND THAT’S HOW WE WILL BUILD HOMES THAT PEOPLE NEED. THANK YOU.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is in Toronto where he is discussing the need to tackle inflation.

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