I hear this all the time when I'm out canvassing or when I'm at events. People come over to me.
It's mainly the municipal taxes, property taxes, that are forcing people to dig deeper into their pockets every single year. They're paying more and they're getting less in return.
I remember we used to have garbage pick-up twice a week in Toronto, and on a third day we'd have recycling picked up. I remember being able to go to the skating rink at my community centre and not having to pay to use the ice. I thought this was all covered in my taxes. Now there are all these user fees that have been attached to a number of the services we thought were being covered in our taxes.
Municipal governments, and Mr. Poilievre made reference to this, are always coming to us and asking for additional funds. We have now indexed, according to inflation, the money that we are guaranteeing to them through the gas tax and GST. There's a whole pot of money out there. If only fairness was injected into the system, if only the right to work was made available to whoever wanted to work, we could save a lot of money, and we could have an infrastructure we could be proud of instead of one that's crumbling, without having to force our taxpayers to pay more and more in tax at the municipal level.
Is that true?