Conservatives will work 'all summer long' to rewrite budget, Poilievre says
CBC Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his party is willing to work through the summer to drastically change the Liberal government's budget bill and is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to revoke the budget and table a new one.
"I'm calling on [Trudeau] to do the honourable thing, to put aside his pride and his personal egoand cancel this budget," Poilievre said in a news conference Thursday.
"He should also cancel his summer vacation. Conservatives are prepared to work all summer long to rewrite a budgetthat balances budgets in order to bring down inflation and interest rates, and that cancels all increases in taxes."
Poilievre repeated many of the pointshe made in a long speech in the House of Commons Wednesday night and in hisremarks earlier this week. He saidhousehold debt levels in Canada, rebounding inflation and rising interest rates since the budget was introduced in March make amendments necessary.
The Bank of Canada raised its benchmark interest rate to 4.75 per cent on Wednesday. Statistics Canada reported a slight bump in inflation in April, with the Consumer Price Index hitting 4.4 per cent compared to 4.3 in March.
