“They keep talking about things that they were doing or should have been doing before inflation struck. The fact is, Canadians are worried about losing their homes. They’re worried about feeding their families.”

]]> https://canadianriley.com/liberals-feeling-the-inflationary-heat-in-hoc-inflation-is-so-bad-that-both-the-ndp-and-the-conservatives-are-grilling-the-liberals/feed/ 0 774 https://canadianriley.com/candice-bergen-the-ndp-liberals-are-more-than-happy-to-use-inflation-to-collect-more-taxes/ https://canadianriley.com/candice-bergen-the-ndp-liberals-are-more-than-happy-to-use-inflation-to-collect-more-taxes/?noamp=mobile#respond Tue, 21 Jun 2022 04:35:20 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=736 Candice Bergen speaks out about the Liberals inflation and spending. “The NDP-Liberals don’t care if you are paying more at the pump, grocery store, or for housing. They’re more than happy to use inflation to collect more taxes.”

The NDP-Liberals don't care if you are paying more at the pump, grocery store, or for housing. They’re more than happy to use inflation to collect more taxes. pic.twitter.com/Zl4PFATcvU

— Candice Bergen Harris (@CandiceBergen_) June 20, 2022

Candice Bergen: We are suffering with record high inflation:

“We are suffering with record high inflation, and it’s clear these liberals have no plan to deal with it responsibly, except more of the same mismanagement that got us here in the first place out of control spending.”

According to the federal government, a fraction of the passports that are normally filed in a year were filed over two years of COVID-19, so during the pandemic, passport staff were given other work. Now, Service Canada is trying to shift that workload elsewhere, hire more staff and open more access points, but has no idea when the backlogs will be resolved.

As many Canadians look to travel abroad, some passport seekers say they’ve been forced to camp outside service centers or reschedule trips because of the bureaucratic bottleneck.

This is the lineup for passports at my local @ServiceCanada_E in Montreal. It’s not isolated – it’s a daily occurrence being repeated all across the country. You think this is acceptable @SeanFraserMP @karinagould? We’re a G7 country, act like it. deserves better. pic.twitter.com/p1qkwRklba

— Senator Leo Housakos (@SenatorHousakos) June 16, 2022

Other travelers complain that Passport Canada online application status tracker is not working and no one is answering passport Canada phone number.

Service Canada announced it had hired 600 new employees to help with processing passport applications, had opened more dedicated passport intake counters in Service Canada locations, had created more processing hubs, and had introduced a new workload management system and processing technology to increase efficiency.

Service Canada continues to hire and train more employees, including the integration of up to 600 new employees over the course of the year and the reassignment of up to 600 employees to passport service delivery.

Minister Karina Gould said “We understand that this situation is difficult and stressful. … The minister has directed officials to work as hard as possible to meet the demand and to examine operations to ensure they’re doing everything they can,”

Canadians continue to have to pay Service Canada for expedited passports, despite the minister assuring this house, that this wouldn’t be the case, half the time they’re not even getting the enhanced service they’re being forced to pay for this directive first came out weeks ago. And yet it’s still not being implemented.

Canadian inflation currently stands at 6.8 per cent. This means that the loonie is losing nearly seven cents of purchasing power every 12 months. For a Canadian earning a median income of $55,700 per year, that translates to an annual inflationary loss of $3,787.60.

We are taking real and tangible steps to help get inflation under control and make life more affordable for Canadians.

And, in five parts, this is how we are going to do it. pic.twitter.com/zOvi72dCFg

— Chrystia Freeland (@cafreeland) June 16, 2022

On the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic, Canadian federal debt stood at $686 billion. That’s now ballooned to more than $1.1 trillion. Even after a sharp scale back in government spending for the 2022 budget, Canada is still spending well above pre-pandemic levels; this year’s $52.8 billion deficit represents $1,400 per Canadian in new debt

Government spending has been so massive, in fact, that the average Canadian was ultimately sitting on more cash than if a pandemic had never happened. Or, as the Bank of Canada put it, “extraordinary fiscal support more than offset (pandemic) income losses, so on balance, household income increased.”

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland speech on Government’s proposals to ease inflation. “Fiscal restraint” Freeland says, as she tables $7 billion in new measures. pic.twitter.com/cRJMNZTesE

— Canadian Riley (@TiaRileyCanada) June 17, 2022

“The five points I’ve spoken about today, respect for the central role of the Bank of Canada, investing in people, fiscal restraint, good jobs, and a new affordability plan will help sustain the robust recovery we’ve made from the COVID recession.”

During testimony the RCMP was asked “12th of February you confident that the police were at a point where their plan would be successful in removing and clearing, making whatever is necessary. The people that were situated on Wellington Street and beyond.”  RCMP confirmed that they were confident that the convoy could be removed with the existing plan “I was briefed of the planet a 12th. I’m confident. And as I mentioned earlier, this is a plan that’s in motion. It’s dynamic. It’s fluid because of what we’re seeing on a train. But I’m confident it might have tweaked a little bit as we move to the kinetic portion. But yes, I was confident, but certainly that no concerns if I may, you had no concerns that you didn’t have the resources didn’t have the capability and capacity to actually operationalize the plan.”