Madam Speaker, at their busiest time of year, the Prime Minister has just buried small businesses under a mountain of complicated bureaucracy. Only Liberals could dream up a policy where Pokémon cards are GST-exempt but hockey cards are not, where train and Lego sets for kids are GST-exempt but train and Lego sets for adults are not and where physical video games are GST-exempt but downloadable games are not. Small businesses are being told to make these ridiculous assessments or risk paying hefty fines to the CRA.
Canadians are calling for real tax relief. The Liberals are defending an indefensible policy, but they are under strict orders not to step outside the party line. One Liberal MP, who was threatened into silence, said, “It says a lot about where our government is at right now and it says a lot about some of the shackles that have been put around MPs.” Canadians know this says a lot about how bad things are after nine years of the Liberal Prime Minister.
When will he finally call a carbon tax election—