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and Right here in Depictures of Media Radio. I'm your host, Michael Cloggs.
I was talking to my wife today and she broke up the topic of
sugar tax and she didn't know that we were paying a sugar tax. Well,
I wasn't absolutely aware of myself that we were paying for a sugar tax.
And kind of what that means is anything that contains sugar, you're going
to pay extra tax on it. So if you drink a lot of Coca
Cola, pepsi, or any other kinds of soda or pop, you're probably
paying a lot of sugar tax. And on top of that, we also
still have things like carbon taxes, and we still have sales tax there on
on many many products that we actually buy. UH. Depending on the province
that you live in, you could be looking at either a harmonized UH sales
tax or a provincial sales tax along with the the the federal government sales tax.
A lot of taxes out there and and a lot more proposed taxes to
come. If we keep hearing from Paul Vier about how Justin Trudeau isn't worth
the the expense that we're paying. Well, that expense is is the taxes
that we're paying and what are we getting in return more taxes, higher costs
of living, And it's a it's a it's a really good question. Justin
Trudeau claims that the carbon pricing actually works. It's making polluters pay for the
ability to pollute, and that isn't It seems that the the the carbon taxi
he's talking about is misplaced, that maybe it should be going to I don't
know, the big corporation that manufactures the products, and that they shouldn't be
allowed to pass that tax on. They should just have to eat it as
a cost. But again, as consumers, it's passed on to us because
have That is the capitalist way, and it's some of these taxes has done
more to lead toward towards corporate greed than it has to to help our environment,
which we thought was supposed to be the goal. But in Ontario they're
pushing back against taxes. And we're gonna hear from Doug Ford as he's talking
about a a tax program in Ontario that's actually going to put money back into
the people's pockets, that the residents of Ontario, that they're trying to find
ways to rebate or lower the taxes, so that well, the cost of
living is getting to be a bit out of control, and we're going to
hear from a premier who wants to do something about that. So why don't
we listen to what Doug Ford is doing in Ontario and maybe we can convince
our provincial or territorial governments to do the same where we live if we're not
in Ontario. So let's hear what he has to say together. We built
the largest long term care home in Ontario, was just opened up last year.
We're investing in the complete reconstruction of the Mississauga Hospital, which will become
the largest hospital in Canadian history. We're building the Hazel Mackalligan Line, which
now includes the Downtown Loop. These are historic, game changing investments right here
in Mississauga. I'm also proud to welcome you to the Pioneer Gas Station today
because when I was six, I got my first job right here pumping gas
and pro pane. At the time, the price of gas was about thirty
three cents per lead. Within the next six years, the Federal Liberals and
NDP plan is to increase the carbon tax by over thirty seven cents per leader,
more than the price of gas when I worked here. People deserve to
know the truth about this and how it will make life harder and less affordable.
So now I would like to welcome my good friend and the Minister of
Finance, Peter Beth and Faldi to the podium. Well, thank you so
much, Rudy, and good morning everyone. It's great to be in Mississauga
again, and along with my colleagues in the premiere, you know, our
government understands that people's hard earned dollars are being stretched far enough. Today our
government is leading by example and once again showing Ontarians that we will continue to
find new and innovative ways to put money back into their pockets and protect them
from new taxes and fees, just as we did when we removed the tolls
on Highways four, twelve and fourteen so that people and businesses had more options
and saved more of their hard earned money, just as we did when we
kept transit affordable by removing double fares and extending fair integration. Just as we
did when we supported parents with forty six thousand new childcare spaces since we took
office and saved an average of eighty five hundred dollars per child. And just
as we did when we increased minimum wage to help over nine hundred thousand Ontario
workers, and just as we did when we reduced energy costs so that families
can count on access access to reliable, sustainable and affordable electricity. At every
turn, our government is making life more affordable for individuals and families because we
know that this is not a time to sit back and wait. That is
why we are never stopping our fight against unaffordability and inflation during these uncertain economic
times. Instead, we continue our work as one united team Ontario, one
that's ready to invest for tomorrow today, one that keeps us moving forward and
builds on everything we've done so far. Sepu Relashiteancient Duron set Peria Desertitude,
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New fair As Company to keep more money in people's pockets, to speed up
the construction of housing and critical infrastructure that people in community so desperately need,
and to support economic growth for our long term prosperity. That's what building a
strong Ontario is about, and we're ready to get it done. So now
it is my distinct pleasure and privilege to introduce the Premier of Ontario, Doug
Ford. Thank you, well, well, good morning everyone, and thank
you Peter for your introduction. I'm thrilled to be back in the beautiful city
of Mississauga, I said, I'm thrilled to be back. I think I'm
here every single day. But alongside Minister's Betham Falvey, Caanjin and t Angry
and MPPs Rudy casetto Deep backing On and Shreef sabalwe since day one, this
team our government has fought back against the carbon tax. In fact, one
of the first things we did after forming government in twenty eighteen was to put
an end to the terrible cap and trade scheme introduced by the previous Liberal government.
This tax, all carbon tax schemes, they're awful. They take money
out of the people's pockets. They raise prices at the gas pump, they
increase the cost of groceries and your home heating bills. They increase the cost
of absolutely everything. That's why today I'm pleased to announce that next week,
our government will introduce legislation to protect people in Ontario from the high cost of
any future carbon tax. If passed, this new legislation will require future provincial
governments to hold a referendum before imposing a carbon pricing scheme. This new law
will guarantee that no provincial government can force a cost of carbon tax on the
people of Ontario without ensuring their voices are heard loud and clear. We're giving
the people of Ontario veto over carbon taxes. People know where I stand on
the carbon tax. I've opposed it from the very beginning. My record couldn't
be more different than Bonnie Crombie's. She supported the carbon tax right from the
start. She's the Queen of carbon tax. Even worse, she raised property
taxes every year she was mayor. Bonnie has never seen a tax she wouldn't
like to hike. The last thing people need right now or higher taxes.
They deserve relief. So we're once again calling on the federal government to eliminate
their carbon tax. The federal carbon tax is adding more than fourteen cents every
leader of gas, and they're getting ready to increase it again in April from
fourteen point three cents per leader of gas to seventeen point six cents per leader.
It needs to end is driving up the cost of absolutely everything, adding
hundreds even thousands of additional dollars in costs on the backs of the hardworking people
of Ontario. I'm a strong believer in protecting the environment by investing in clean,
green steel, by building the electric vehicles of the future, by leading
the largest transit expansion in North America, by building the future of clean nuclear
energy, by expanding provincial parks, not by taxing hardworking people. It's never
been more important to keep costs down, especially now as people struggle with the
Bank of Canada's interest rate hikes and rising prices. Whether it's eliminating road tolls,
cutting the gas tax by ten point seven cents that we did, scrapping
the license plate sticker fees, or fighting back against the carbon tax, or
saving people sixteen hundred dollars rate and tron GTA that take transit on the one
Fair program we announced, our government will always look for ways to put money
back into your pockets. Thank you to everyone for joining us today and make
God bless the people of Ontario. Thank you well. Now go to reporters
questions, Please identify yourselves by name and outlet. It will be one question
and one follow up. First question, Hey, good morning, Premier Colin
develop from Global News on Bill one twenty four. Two successes of courts now
have deemed the bill was unconstitutional looking back, do you believe that Bill one
twenty four was a mistake. Well, we just believe it should be government's
decision, not the courts. If they hike up the costs, that's what
we believe it should be the government. So I always say parliament is supreme,
meaning the people are supreme. People elect the parliament, they should make
the decisions. But in saying all that, we respect the decision of the
courts and we're going to move forward on this. So moving forward, and
this obviously means repealing the legislation, Can you tell us how your government came
to that decision, because for years you and your Finance minister have been defending
Bill one twenty four. So how suddenly did you decide to now reverse and
repeal Bill one twenty four. Well, let's just remember we've already signed agreements
with the nurses and a lot of the teachers' unions. We've already spent billions
of dollars and times are different now. Times are different when we came into
office in twenty eighteen, when this province was a total disaster financially, and
now as we move forward, because of the great work of our team and
the great work of the Finance Minister, we're a lot more financially stable.
We're prudent fiscal managers. And there's a time when cost of living is going
up. We understand that and we're a government for the people and we're going
to continue making sure that we look at every avenue to save people costs and
put money back into their pockets. You know, folks, we've cut cost
to doing business here in Ontario to make ourselves more competitive by eight billion dollars.
We're the only government, think of this, in the history of Canada
that has raised revenues from one hundred and fifty billion to two hundred and two
billion dollars fifty two billion dollar increase. And we've never ever raised at tax.
We've reduced taxes. And the reason being we can do that because we've
made it more competitive. We created the conditions and the climate for companies to
come here, and they're coming by the droves all over the world. That
creates more revenues. There's over seven hundred thousand more people working today than there
was five and a half years ago because we created the climate and the conditions
for companies to come here and thrive and prosper and grow. Just think of
this, folks, And I want to thank all the manufacturers. Because of
our policies, Ontario manufacturers, we created more jobs last year, manufacturing jobs
than all fifty states combined. Think of this. Think of that we created
more manufacturing jobs and all fifty US states combined. And we're going to continue
creating a strong economy and creating more jobs. Good morning, miss Spreamer Jamie
with City TV, Hi Jamie, Hello, or Travilla. During the COVID
the horrific stories came out of Ortravilla. They just got a thirty year license.
I just I want to explain that, but I also want to make
you aware that at ten o'clock today some of the relatives of the victims are
putting a lawsuit together to see compensation. Yeah, it's really hard to hear
the first part of the question. Okay, sorry, Orcharvilla, horrific stories
came out to a lawsuit pending lawsuit. Also they got a thirty year extension
on their ability to operate in Ontario. Well, we've hired many more and
more inspectors, and I go back. You know, the previous government created
six hundred and seven long term care beds in fifteen year. We're building an
excess of thirty thousand modern homes for people. That's pretty staggering. Were revamping
another twenty seven thousand homes until people have their dignity when they're in the long
term care homes, Jamie, I acknowledge it was a tough time throughout COVID,
not only here but around the world, but we've corrected those problems.
We're going to continue improving the processes in all long term care homes. But
people are now going to be able to live and call it home in brand
new facilities all over Ontario, including right here in Mississauga that we built a
rapid build and that's the largest in the entire province right now. But we're
going to continue to build. I understand the reaction to the incident, but
Orchravella's still got a thirty year extension on their license, and there's such an
emotional level here. How do you justify that? Well, well, Jamie,
I can. I can tell you there was lot of problems with many
homes right across the province. We corrected those problems. We have more inspectors
going in, We're modernizing all the facilities, and I'll never forget. I
got to give the gal from CBC that said about the air conditioning. For
the first time ever, these homes all have air conditioning as well, and
I want to thank the reporter that mentioned that. We acted on it and
we moved quick and now people are going to live a lot more comfortable than
sitting in a long term care home when it's about one hundred degrees out.
So we're making tremendous moves when it comes to creating more homes right across the
province for people in long term care homes. Morning Premier Liam Casey with the
Canadian Press. The Billboine mayor is asking for money to help fund a community
hub for addictions, mental health and homelessness. Big city mayors came out again
yet again asking for more help for you know, cities big and small.
Sure urban role, what more? What more can you do to help?
Well? Yeah, I personally talk to the mayor and myself. He's doing
everything you can. Uh. We have Minister Smith on the ground, uh
in in Belleville well as well. We're gonna try to support them. They
need an influx of money right away. We're gonna get that done, and
then we're gonna sit down and talk to them about building building more. I
always believe in the rehabilitation centers and supporting communities, but we also have to
go after these bad guys, these bad guys that are poisoning, poisoning our
towns, our cities. Uh, you know, giving them tainted drugs that
are killing people. We need to catch them, We need to throw them
in jail. And that's exactly what we're gonna do. Thanks. The opiated
crisis has gotten a lot worse your under your watch. Some medical professionals and
advocates are calling on what they call a safer supply program to deal with these
tainted drugs so that there are no taint to drugs. I know you're a
big believer in rehabilitation and treatment. So man, these people are calling for
this safe supply. The Province of BC is doing it. What are your
thoughts on this safe supply? Yeah, so we've already put in seventeen safe
supply sites around the province. There it's not one or the other. It's
not either or it's and we're going to continue working to make sure that we
support the communities. But again, go to root cause, the root cause.
There's drug dealers out there trying to kill our young people, middle aged
people and giving them tainted drugs. You know, that's as far as I'm
concerned, as murder. We need to catch them, throw them in jail
for a long time. But we're pouring endless amounts of money into mental health
and addiction. Folks. There's no government in this country that's invested three point
eight billion dollars into making sure that we have support work for mental health and
addictions. So we're going to continue working very, very hard and trying to
eradicate this. I want to clarify a little bit of Premier seventeen. Those
are consumption and treatmentsights right now, that's right. Assumption goes are on safe
supply, Like, what do you think about safe supply? Well, again,
our Minister our Mental Health and Addiction is working on that. He's in
conversations with communities. He's I always say he's the greatest person when it comes
to mental health and addiction, Minister Tobolo. He's doing an incredible job and
we're going to support him. Morning Premier Rob Fergus in Toronto. Step,
we had a story yesterday about people forgetting to register their license plates, reregister
their license plates on their birthday because there's no stickers anymore. It turns out
that so many people are forgetting that there's one million expired plates out on Ontario
roads. So are you concerned about that? Well, thanks for the question.
I'm here to announce today actually that we're getting rid of that totally registering
your your vehicle. We did the first step getting rid of the sticker.
Now we're getting rid of the re registration. It will be automatically reregistered,
so people won't have to worry about that at all. And premium, when
will that start? And I'm gonna have to get back to you on that,
Rob, but we're going to make sure that's very soon, extremely soon.
It will be legislated when we get back. All right, thank you,
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today, I think a lot of people are looking at this and saying,
what is he talking about? Where is this coming from? We have the
carbon price across the country that federal Conservatives have pledged to quote ax the tax.
What exactly are you coming forward with today and why? Well, what
we're doing, We're we're sitting to the people of Ontario. If a future
government ever tries to raise the carbon tax like they did before, uh,
they're going to have to have a reference as simple as that. There's so
many governments out there that said, oh, I'm going to lower taxes,
and they aren't truthful with the people. They get in the office like the
previous liberal government and start jacking up the taxes, making it unaffordable. Let
the people have a voice if it comes down to the carbon tax, and
that's what we're going to do. Make sure that we put into legislation that
they'll have to have a referendum on the I just call it the tax scheme.
That's all this is is making life more unaffordable for people right across the
board. Every time you put a pump gas into your vehicle, folks look
at this, say that the gas right now, it ranges from a buck
forty to buck fifty. Right. Just imagine you go for a trip down
in the US. That's six dollars a gallon. When I was down south
at Christmas, it was two eighty a gallon, and a lot of it
is made up of tax. It's unacceptable. You're being gouged by the carbon
tax, as simple as that. It's the worst tax ever. Premiere,
Is this some sort of veiled attack on Bonnie Cromby? Do you feel you
mentioned she's the queen of the carbon tax. I haven't even heard her come
out in favor of the federal one. So what like are you are you
feeling threatened by her and you're preemptively attacking. Well, let's be very clear
with Bonnie Crombie. She's raised taxes every single year she's been mayor. And
if you look look up when she was an MP in Ottawa, she was
the queen of the carbon tax. She was up there cheering the carbon tax
makes things more unaffordable for people. She's been on record over and over and
over again in favor of the carbon tax. And it's very clear when she
was an MP, she led the charge on the carbon tax. And that's
why Bonnie Crombie is the Queen of the carbon tax. Joe Warmington from the
Toronto Sun here, Nice to see you again, Good to see all your
colleagues, and thanks to the reporters. Let me give a question. And
in nineteen thirteen, four Jewish women in Toronto decided that they were tired of
the anti semitism in the health sector and they put together some money to start
what is now Mount Sinai Hospital. It started in York in the forties,
went over to University Avenue as well know, and you've been there many times.
Last night. There were masked protesters, many of them calling for Intefauda.
Also you know many other incidents of anti Semitism. They jumped on the
hospital. A doctor actually went out and encounter protest. And I think,
since you know this has happened here in Ontario, it's a hospital you know
very well and done a lot of work with, we're looking for your comment
on this. Well, I think it's absolutely terrible. The federal government came
out with a law that you cannot protest on hospitals. Folks, get some
decency, have common sense. These hospitals are there to save lives. You
know Mount si I did everything they could to save my brother's life. He
was in there, and they're an incredible hospital. Along with all the hospitals
around the province. They're there to help people. Do not break the law,
because that's exactly what happened. You broke the law. And again the
federal government came out with a law saying you cannot protest in front of hospitals.
But even without the law, you have that an ounce of decency not
to do this. I don't care what you're protesting, that doesn't matter.
You want to protest, go to city Hall, come down to Queen's Park,
jump up and down, do whatever you want, but don't prohibit people
going into a hospital when they're in there saving people's lives, because you never
know you may be the next person in that hospital and they'll be trying to
save your life. They're sacred hospitals. Just a quick follow up. In
addition to that, there was also Prohomas kind of messaging put on another Cafe
Aroma last night as well. The anti semitism, I've been writing about it
for a lot of months and it just doesn't seem to be going away.
Is there something that the province can do about this? It doesn't matter if
it's Islamophobia, anti Semitism. Folks, we have one hundred and twenty nationalities
that live here in Ontario. Two hundred languages are spoken. We pride ourselves
around the world for everyone to come here and get along and live side by
side and work side by side. No matter where you work, we need
to live peacefully together. That's my message to the people of Ontario. You
know, I looked online the other day on how many wars there are around
the world. I think one said one hundred and ten. Act of Wars
you know, we live in a peaceful society. I'm asking everyone please get
along, let's work together. That's not the Ontario I grew up in what's
happening today or on any of the protests. We live in a peaceful societ
and please obey the laws. Thank you, I Premier. Mike Crawley from
CBC. I just saw in today's announcement. If you're going to try to
stop future governments from bringing in carbon pricing, how are you expecting them to
actually bring down carbon emissions or do you not think that that's an important thing?
Oh? I think it's real important matter of fact. Thanks for that
question, Mike, because there's no government that has brought carbon emissions down more
than our government. Let's just run through it here for a minute. We're
eliminating coal furnaces over at Stelco and I'm sorry, at the Fasco and Algoma,
and we're putting electric car furnaces in. That's like taking two million cars
off the road. We're building the largest transit system in North America and bringing
more people out of their cars into transit. We're building and rebuilding, refurbishing
nuclear facilities, the Darlington or Pickering and Bruce Power just out of their sixth
line clean nuclear energy. We're pouring money into all those areas making sure we
cut down on emissions. But it's not either or again, it's not you
have to go radical on one side or radical on the other. You can
be environmentally conscious and friendly and great jobs economic development at the same time.
That's exactly what our government is doing. Now we'll continue to do it.
And by the way, expanding parks, clean lakes, clean water and clean
rivers, that's what we believe in and premieer the colleges and universities. A
bunch of the universities are looking at really deep deficits. You've completely ruled out
to tuition increases. So what are you going to actually do in the way
of funding to help the colleges and universities cope with the financial situation and the
loss of international students, well, the international students. We are caught off
guard by the federal government. Never got a phone call that they're doing this.
But here now there, we're going to be there to support the colleges
and university. I have all the confidence in the world and Minister Dunlop,
she's working hand in hand actually she worked at one of the colleges before she
got into politics. We've been in full communication with the collegists in universities.
We're there to support them. You know, that's the next generation they're teaching,
their training. They come out here and be you know, the future
of our province. So we'll make sure we're there for them. Hey,
Premier Aid and Shmandi from the Trillium here. Late last year, Minister Calandra
Matthew Ray said that your government is reviewing the Ontario Land Tribunal once again.
So why is it still so slow after all of your various attempts to reform.
Well, you know something, we have to reform a lot of things
to get homes built. We had order over eight hundred thousand people show up
to our province and we're trying to speed up development every which way possible.
We're handing out over one point two billion dollars the municipalities to build and if
they hit their targets, they're going to get a check and that will go
towards infrastructure. So we're going to do everything we can to make sure that
we continue building as quickly as possible for the new Canadians that came into our
province, the fastest growing region in an entire North America. And a couple
of weeks ago we reported that you met personally twice with Marie Hubbard, the
late former chair of the oyalty. What'd you guys talk about in those meetings?
I have such a fond memory of Marie. I think she was eighty
five years old. She knew that that file inside and note she did an
incredible job catching up on the backlog and just to see how she's doing.
She's just a wonderful kind of person. And I remember she baked some cookies.
She brought them into me and we sat there. Honestly, we ate
cookies and discussed life. But my goodness, she was such a wonderful person.
And mister Dearly Clara Pasca CBC, so premier across this country. Many
provinces didn't want the carbon tax, and yet they are now having it imposed
imposed on them. So what makes you think that your plan will will actually
work? If we had had this six years ago, would the people actually
not have a carbon tax now in Ontario? Well, it's very simple.
We live in a democracy. We were elected in twenty eighteen and a greater
majority in twenty twenty one of our platforms. We weren't for the carbon tax.
We brought the federal government to the highest court in the land. It
didn't go our way, So we respect the courts. We move forward.
But I'm doing everything I can to put money back into people's pockets. The
worst place you could put money is in the government's pockets. We took a
different approach rather than raise taxes and take money out of people's pockets and businesses
pockets. You know it doesn't work. It's economics, one on one.
Put money back into people's pockets. They'll go out there, they may go
for dinner, they might buy something they might otherwise not buy. Maybe they
put a little renovation on that stirs the economy. You put money back into
company's pockets. And remember, folks, back in five and a half years
ago, Kathleen Win said we're getting rid out of the manufacturing sector and we're
getting into the service sector. That worked real well, didn't it. Three
hundred thousand jobs were lost overnight. People were struggling, and in five and
a half years there's seven hundred thousand more people working today than there was five
and a half years ago. And we're one of the hottest areas regions in
the entire world. We're an economic powerhouse in North America. My friends south
of the border are asking me, man, what are you doing. You're
eating our lunch. Well, to my American friends that I love, We're
going to eat your breakfast' and eat your lunch. We're going to eat your
dinner. And of course I never missed assert so I'll eat your dessert as
well. So you're putting some sort of legislation forward here that obviously takes a
lot of you know, conversations with legislative drafters and otherwise. What have you
been told that makes you certain that it will work this time, that it
won't just you know, ultimately be reached. Well, you know when it
comes to uh are you talking the carbon tax? Right? Yeah, so
the carbon tax. I think that people have a say. The previous government
said we aren't going to raise taxes. Man, they raised it more than
any government they've ever seen. And then they came up with this big scheme
on the carbon tax. And that's all it was, is a big scheme
taking money out of people's pockets. What is it with governments, no matter
what level in is able provincial or federal. What do politicians get. We're
in a very tough situation. Prices are going up. Start giving people relief
like we have, rather than always trying to gouge the people. You know,
you work overtime. Who's there in your pockets? The government has your
hands in your pocket. Property taxes, who's there? Municipal government's gouging you
for more money. Why don't you run the government efficiently and stop taxing the
death out of people in Ontario take a lead from us. We've never ever
raised a tax ever, and we've seen fifty two billion dollars more up to
the cofference of Queen's Park because more people are paying taxes, more companies are
coming here. And no matter if it's the twenty eight billion dollars in the
EV sector, we've seen close to twenty billion in the tech sector, three
billion in the life science sector. Again, we created more manufacturing jobs.
The manufacturers did not the government. Manufacturers created more job then all fifty states
combined in the US. We're on the right track. And again we're going
in the right direction and we are an economic powerhouse in North America right now.
This will be the last reporter my Premier, Shavon Morris from CTV News.
Hik Jewan, you've talked about for some of your own policies that these
are ideas that have been discussed on the campaign trail. Why is a campaign
not sufficient to discuss something like a carbon tax. Why do you need the
extra layer, an expensive layer, potentially two of something like a referendum.
Well, I think it's very clear. When you're out on a campaign,
you set your goals what you're going to do for the people over the next
four years. And that's what I believe. In a democracy that parliament supreme,
meaning that people are supreme. They vote you in, if they like
you, they'll vote you in again, or they'll get rid of you.
But people have to have a say when future governments want to come in there,
dig their hands in your pockets and start gouging for more of your hard
earned money. Well, we see prices of everything going up. I'll guarantee
you. You know, in our business, before I got involved in politics,
there was a fuel surcharge. Guess where the fuel surcharge came from from?
The carbon tax. So when they're delivering the groceries or the auto parts
or any parts, you're paying more because of the carbon tax. You're paying
more every time you pull up to the pumps. And you know we're here
at Pioneer. Pioneer just opened up across the street from where I live.
It used to be a Husky. It's lined up non stop at the pin.
A matter of fact, I have to ask the Pioneer folks, you
know how much the fuels increased on the volume because people are lined up.
They're always the lowest out there. But okay, here I go with the
gas companies. Now, no offense to anyone, but why is it when
I drive home at night the gas drops five six seven eight cents per leader,
you know, and during the day they jack it up. So I
encourage everyone if you have time, I know a lot of people work afternoons.
Fill up at night time. You get a lower cost. But congratulations
to Pioneer. They're always leading the way in the lowest cost. But don't
start jacking up the prices during the day. It drives me crazy, absolutely
crazy, I guess. Maybe with that in mind, I'm wondering if the
government's contemplating a longer break for the temporary tax our gas tax relief. You've
been doing in sort of six month, one year increments. Would you commit
to something more long term. Well, we're going to take a look at
everything as we move forward, budget by budget. But I'll tell you one
thing. Our government doesn't believe in raising costs. We believe in putting more
money into people's pockets, creating more jobs for people, and that's the best
way to help people lift them up. They have better jobs and bigger paychecks.
That's what our government's all about. And we're going to continue to make
sure the people of Ontario and the economy continues to move forward. There was
over twenty three eight hundred jobs created last month. Call your neighbors, call
your friends. We live in such a multicultural society, as I said,
one hundred and twenty countries people come from. Call your friends and family back
home and ask them how things are going. I'll tell you there's no better
place in the entire world than to live right here in Ontario. I want
to thank you God bless each and every one of you. Thanks everyone.
We're looking at the cost of living as it's climbing. A lot of it
does have to do with taxes, a lot of it has to do with
other types of things such as imports and bringing more and more products from other
countries into our country so that we can have them available to be sold in
stores. There's a lot going on a lot that we need to look at
in order to make our lives a little more affordable, including things like housing,
mortgage rates, rentals. All that sort of stuff also needs to be
looked at a lot closer and see how what's affecting it so that the costs
can come down so that we all can have a decent way of life without
the stress of how is my paycheck really going to stretch far enough so that
I can pay all my bills and put food on the table. So thank
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