Andrew Scheer Has a Shockingly Bad Housing Plan That Could Leave Canadians With Riskier Debt
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The Conservative leader’s platform offers a pretty bad solution to Canada’s housing affordability crisis — more debt.
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Scheer Folly: Promised Coast-to-Coast Energy Corridor Makes No Sense | The Tyee
Megaprojects are bad news for taxpayers. Oxford University economist Bent Flyvbjerg has documented the common characteristics of these giant projects. He found they consistently go over budget, fail to meet construction schedules and rarely deliver any benefits.
Why? Because they are inherently risky, complex and, as in Scheer’s case, politically motivated. They start with a big political dream and end up as a costly taxpayer nightmare.
Scheer’s Energy Corridor will be Canada’s ‘Site C’/’Muskrat Falls’
Fact Check: Andrew Scheer’s Universal Tax Cut doesn’t help 9 million Canadians
The policy release frames the cuts as geared towards low-income
Canadians, stating that “every Canadian will see their income taxes go
down, and those in the lowest tax bracket see the biggest benefit of
all.”
Canadians, stating that “every Canadian will see their income taxes go
down, and those in the lowest tax bracket see the biggest benefit of
all.”
But according to
Trevor Tombe, an economics professor at the University of Calgary, only
two-thirds of Canadians who file their taxes would be affected by the
changes. Nearly nine million Canadians would see no benefit at all.
What’s more, the greatest benefit of the cut would not be for those
in the lowest tax bracket but instead for the wealthiest Canadians. Tombe’s analysis
as first reported by PressProgress shows that families making more than
$150,000 receive more than double what the average Canadian family
receives.
Scheer’s relationship with Indigenous people is being tested in this election | CBC News
Pasqua First Nation Chief Matthew Peigan said he’s found Scheer
“distant” as an MP and describes the prospect of Scheer as prime
minister as “scary.”
“distant” as an MP and describes the prospect of Scheer as prime
minister as “scary.”
“If he didn’t want to engage as an MP and Speaker of the House, who is he going to engage as the prime minister?” said Peigan.
“In my view … he doesn’t respect First Nation views, opinions, positions … as prime minister he would do what he would want in terms of legislation, policy, programs that impact First Nations.”
‘Politics by association’: Nanos on how Ontario school strike could impact Scheer
TORONTO – The threat of a strike by thousands of Ontario education workers could mean bad news for federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer’s popularity in the province, according to pollster Nik Nanos.
Citing nightly tracking data from Nanos Research, whenever Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Premier Doug Ford is associated with Scheer, the federal Conservative leader’s popularity suffers.
While Ford has kept a relatively low profile during the past three weeks of the campaign, Monday’s possible strike is dragging the leader back into the spotlight.
On Wednesday, the union representing thousands of education workers, including custodians, clerical staff, and education assistants across 63 Ontario school boards announced they would walk off the job on Monday after holding a work-to-rule campaign.