Press Release – Hon. Pierre Poilievre, P.C., M.P. (Battle River—Crowfoot)
Do you ever wonder why you feel poorer?
Do you look around and ask yourself why your kids might not be able to enjoy the same quality of life that you did?
In my travels throughout Battle River–Crowfoot and across our great country, the answer from hardworking families is abundantly clear.
After more than a year as Prime Minister still recycles the same speeches and talking points: making big promises on affordability, growth and global trade, while doubling the inflationary deficit his predecessor left. Mark Carney is just another liberal.
Albertans, like most Canadians, are still waiting for real change. What we see instead is rhetoric without results, words without action and promises that never materialize.
At the grocery store, prices were up 4.4 per cent in March year-over-year.
If you want fresh vegetables on your table, that figure was as high as 7.8 percent: the biggest increase since August of 2023.
And even with the government following our lead to briefly pause the excise tax on gas, Canadians are still paying roughly 12 per cent more at the pump than our neighbours to the south.
Altogether, the Carney Liberals have burdened Canada with the worst food inflation, the worst household debt, the worst housing costs and the only shrinking economy in the G7.
In fact, Canada currently has the highest food price inflation in the G7 for the fourth consecutive month.
Back in December 2020, Mark Carney confidently predicted that inflation was “unlikely to materialize to a serious extent.” Today, those words ring hollow. Canadians, quite literally, cannot feed their families with his promises or fill their tanks with his rhetoric.
No wonder that more than a decade of Liberal mismanagement triggered the largest capital exodus in Canadian history, with more than $1 trillion in net investment fleeing the country between 2015 and 2024.
To this day, Carney has failed to build a single pipeline or repeal a single development-blocking Liberal law.
If we want to be affordable, safe, and strong at home, we must demand real change.
Conservatives understand that true leadership means working tirelessly for the people of this region, and all Canadians from coast to coast to coast.
That’s why we will end wasteful Liberal spending on corporate welfare, consultants, foreign aid and handouts to fake refugees.
We will unblock our resources, unleash our entrepreneurs, and approve major, nation-building projects like a pipeline to the Pacific.
We will cut the gas taxes for our farmers, energy workers, truckers and steelmakers, and stop the inflationary money-printing deficits driving up the cost of everything.
Only Conservatives offer the real change needed to make Canada strong here at home and unbreakable abroad. It is time to end the Liberal illusions and truly get to work.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this column, or if you require assistance regarding a Federal Government program, you are encouraged to send an email topierre.poilievre@parl.gc.ca or call 1-800-665-4358.
