Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will axe the carbon tax and will cap government spending with a new dollar-for-dollar law if he is elected prime minister in the next federal election.
“Politicians need laws to limit their spending. They need to be disciplined by law or they will spend irresponsibly,” said Poilievre. “It’s time that politicians started pinching their pennies too.”
A Conservative federal government “would require the government to find one dollar of savings for every new dollar of unbudgeted spending,” Poilievre said on Feb. 23, speaking to about 100 supporters at the Royal Canadian Legion in Clarenville, Newfoundland and Labrador.
In his speech, he pledged to eliminate the carbon tax, especially mentioning home heating bills, as well as cut tariffs on fertilizer so that more food can be produced by local farmers….
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