I found the common not to bring from the forest fires across the country. Conservatives are calling for a stronger federal coordinated coordination and action plan to respond to these types of fires. We believe that the federal government could do more to coordinate provincial assets to have more federal assets and to have better reaction the next time a fire like this happens, and I have here with me tonight Shadow Minister of emergency preparedness named Lloyd to answer more questions on our call on the government in that regard. Yesterday spoke for four hours to stop the inflationary tax hiking Trudeau budget. I did this not just because I disagree with the irresponsible overspending that has caused the inflation I've long believed that but because I believe we're heading to a very serious crisis. Since the Prime Minister introduced his budget. There have been three major developments one, the International Monetary Fund has identified Canada as the country most at risk of a mortgage meltdown. Because we have the biggest household debt of any country in the g7 $2 trillion of household debt back, our households have as much debt as the entire GDP combined with the second inflation is now again on the rise, something the prime minister promised was not going to happen. He claimed inflation was just going to fall. Now it's rising. surprise when you pour 10s of billions of dollars more of spending into the economy, you get more inflation and through a third, the unexpected increase in interest rates, it is going to be another uppercut to overly indebted Canadians who already can't afford their bills. I want you to think about this for a second. If this is if you have a family that's paying $3,000 a month on mortgages, and they experienced what the Bank of Canada projects will be a 40% increase in their monthly mortgage payment. That's $1,300 a month, which is almost $15,000 a year, when half of our households don't even have $200 left in their bank account. What is going to happen over the next three years as all of these mega mortgages renew at these higher rates. We're going to have defaults we're gonna have massive fire sales of homes as people can't make their payment and all they can do is put their house in the market but there won't be anyone to buy it because no one else could afford to pay the rates either. This could be a major financial meltdown. This is not me saying it's the IMF. It's the Bank of Canada. The Prime Minister has to recognize these facts have changed since he introduced his budget. And so I'm calling on him to do the honorable thing. To put aside his pride and his personal ego and cancel this budget. He should also cancel his summer vacation. Conservatives are prepared to work all summer long to rewrite a budget that balances budgets in order to bring down inflation and interest rates. And that cancels all increases in taxes because Canadians cannot afford to pay more. Mr. Trudeau people's homes. their livelihoods are more important than your political posturing. They're more important than your summer vacation to join with us. put partisanship aside. Let's cancel the vacations. Let's cancel the $60 billion or $4,200 per family in inflationary spending. And let's get to work in this house to save the houses of those Canadians who are up to their eyeballs in debt and debt after eight years of your government. That is the responsible thing to do. I'm going to inherit this mess as prime minister, but I'm going to do everything I can as leader of the opposition to mitigate it and make sure that we save the house of the homes and the financial future of our people. It's common sense the common sense of the common people united For Our Common Home. Let's bring it home.
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to want you to listen to her to listen to me last night you talked a bit about some ideas you had on climate change. And I wonder what would the ultimate climate related goal of a conservative climate policy look like under your government? Would it be emissions targets? What would be the climate specific goal that you'd be after?
Well, our goal is to remove and reduce emissions. But we have an inverse approach that the Liberals they believe in raising the cost of traditional energy we still need I believe in lowering the cost of carbon free energy that we want. So let's bring down the cost of hydro electricity, nuclear power. Carbon Capture and Storage, tidal power and other green forms of electricity. How do we do that? We have to green light green projects. They had a wonderful tidal power project in Nova Scotia private sector driven the company threw up his hands and laughed because it was six years waiting for Super Fisheries and Oceans to give them a sign up. Polly if government would greet would remove the gatekeepers and Greenlight these green projects. We need to speed up the approval of small modular, Small Modular nuclear reactors. Look, we have to protect safety, but does it take 15 years? What are we going to learn in years 1314 and 15 of a study that we can't learn in years 123. So Trudeau is saying he wants Saskatchewan, Alberta, and nobody who runs them to shut down coal. Okay, fine, but replace it with what? And he's not going to greenlight nuclear power that how are they going to do that in Quebec they need 100% increase in their in their electricity grid. But how are they going to do that if the federal government holds up hydroelectric dams for 789 years, I would respect Quebec's environmental process and not duplicate it so that we can speed up hydroelectric dam construction. In other words, let's lower the cost of carbon free alternatives. Rather than raising the costs of traditional energy on which Canadians still rely.
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I was working last night until midnight, fighting against inflation and interest rate hikes. And that that was my focus and that's going to continue to be my focus.
are you acknowledging now the thought of you going into work all summer long in the House of Commons? Is this an acknowledgment that your demands on the government and your filibuster type speech last night was not successful?
It was very successful in appealing to the common sense of the common people. Unfortunately, we don't have a prime minister and a lot of common sense. So, you know, I'm going to continue to work on convincing Justin Trudeau that you can't pour $60 billion of new inflationary spending on an economy that already has high inflation and interest rates, but rather, we need a plan to balance the budget to bring down inflation and interest rates at the end to end all of his plans for tax increases to very simple demands. Now the Prime Minister needs to cancel his vacation. I know he loves to vacation. He's probably the Prime Minister most in love with vacations of any Prime Minister we've ever had. In fact, I'm going to be making a contact with the Guinness Book of World Records to find out if there's any other politician in the history of the world who has vacation as much as him. But could could he not cancel his summer vacation to fight the inflation that he has caused in our country. Could he not put the mortgage payments of ordinary Canadians ahead of his tan or his surfing lessons? I think he could and that's why we're saying Justin Trudeau cancel the surfing, get back to work. Get into this house so that we can save the houses of hardworking Canadians by bringing down inflation and interest rates. For the trans community what public safety is a central pillar of what you're trying to campaign on? So what do you make of the increased hostility and threats to trans community is facing right now with pride month? I believe every Canadian regardless of who they are, regardless of their race, sexuality, gender who deserves to be safe and that if anybody commits violence against any other Canadian than they should be thrown in the slammer, we should have serious consequences for violence committed against any person regardless of who that person is, regardless of the motive of the crime. And that's why we have to do away with Troodos catch and release system which allows repeat violent re offenders back out on the street to do harm to no to other people. That that does not make sense offering a common sense criminal justice justice reform that will protect every single Canadian let's bring home safety Thank you very much
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You or your sister for you have mentioned that you want more firefighters, more water planes and you want a national plant Can you just elaborate on what you're asking for and how you intend to ask for it?
Well, we're taking a very constructive approach in the middle of a natural disaster is not the time to be throwing blame around so we're taking a very constructive approach. I've had a number of meetings with Minister Blair on this subject. It's clear we've seen articles come up this morning that our fleet of water bombers, which are primarily provincial, are aging, some of them are said to be as old as 50 years. We also have a shortage of skilled pilots, which we're seeing across the aviation sector, not just in the water bombing. And so it's clear that the we believe the federal government needs to take a greater role in enhancing the capacity and capabilities of the federal government to assist the provinces. Many of the provinces such as Alberta, British Columbia, have very strong record of fighting forest fires because we have a lot of experience with that, as Fort McMurray will attest to, but we've seen other provinces like Nova Scotia, which haven't had as much experience with forest fires really being hit hard recently. And so for the federal government to have these resources to assist in an increased capacity during these
huge times, federal, for lack of a better word like task force because it is provincial. So are you asking funding to go to provinces? Are you asking for like a federal firefighter fleet?
We believe that the federal government does need to develop its own unique capabilities. We do have the Canada interagency forest firefighting Center, which does a great job of coordinating firefighting resources. So when there's not fires in Alberta, and there are fires in Nova Scotia, they can get the resources there quickly. But we do think that, you know, as the years go by, and as we possibly see an increase in in not only the devastation of these forest fires, but the numbers of forest fires that we should have these capabilities ready to go. Last question.
What point do you think we need to move away from leaning so heavily on the military for this and create some kind of domestic national agency that deals with disasters?
I think that's definitely those conversations are ongoing and they need to be seriously looked at. We've seen models in Australia where they've developed very strong civilian capabilities to assist and I think that's something we absolutely need to be looking at as well. Not what you call a calling for, has hampered or, you know, challenged our ability to fight these,
these forest fires. Or compromise our ability to fight this forest fire.
Well, I believe our forest fires, our forest firefighters on the front line are doing a fantastic job and we are getting support from across the globe because this is not just a Canada issue. This is a global issue and I'm really pleased to see firefighters from Costa Rica, the United States, France Spain, among other countries coming here to assist us. Are there some barriers to these countries being able to deploy as quickly as we would want them to into Canada? There are some barriers that do need to be addressed. I have talked to Minister Blair about that and that's something that we can constructively work on. But I think going forward in the future, we do need to seriously look at enhancing federal capabilities. Thank you very much.
