\u0022I will keep speaking and keep blocking this inflationary train wreck until the Prime Minister rises with a plan to balance the budget.\u0022
But even voting on these amendments took MPs a total of four hours. And during the process, multiple Conservative MPs kept referring to technical issues during electronic voting – in an apparent effort to further delay the process – which led to Liberals and New Democrats calling on the Speaker of the House to investigate the situation.
“I will keep speaking and keep speaking and keep blocking this inflationary trainwreck until the Prime Minister rises with a plan to balance the budget and bring down inflation and interest rates,” he said, prompting a round of applause from Conservative MPs. Speaking earlier this week, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland called the Conservatives’ attempts to block C-47 “incredibly irresponsible” and “frankly, incredibly juvenile.”Article content
Poilievre’s new attempt at blocking the budget bill comes as the Bank of Canada announced a new rate hike of a quarter percentage point to 4.75 per cent — the highest in 22 years — in the light of stubbornly high inflation and consumer demand.Article content Freeland reiterated on Wednesday that Canadians should be “confident in the strength and the resilience of the Canadian economy,” pointing to the strong economic growth, which is expected to continue until next year, and the higher number of jobs created since before the pandemic.
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