Mark Carney's Liberal government is taking away Canadians' right to select affordable vehicles.
The ban on gas-powered vehicles increases expenses and eliminates jobs.
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-- Speaker, and it is an honour for me to rise on behalf of all my constituents in Regina Capelle and, indeed, everyone in Saskatchewan and, I dare say, across Canada who would like to continue to have the choice to buy the vehicle that suits their needs at a price they can afford. That's what today's motions are all about.- Let me read it for you because it's important that people watching understand what the government's doing. The governor's going to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles that will force Canadians to buy electric vehicles, and this mandate will drive up the cost of vehicles by twenty thousand dollars.- So in order to allow them the choice to purchase any vehicle that meets their needs at a price they can afford, the house calls on the liberal government to immediately end their ban on gas-powered vehicles.- I've heard so much nonsense from the government today, Mr. Speaker. They are dressing this up as providing an opportunity for Canadians to do something, but they are banning an entire category of vehicles that Canadians have demonstrated over the course of the last few years that they enjoy buying and driving.- and ask you to remember the time you purchased your first vehicle. I imagine for many Canadians it's a special moment. Yeah, I know people who worked hard all summer in their last year of high school; they scrimped and they saved, and as they got back to that, the opening day of school, they were able to buy that.
- First, we are told they're able to pick up their friends and drive to school. They are able to do that because a used car back then was affordable. Now, thanks to liberal inflationary policies and thanks to policies like this ban on gas-powered vehicles, the cost of cars is going through the roof, according to Auto Trader.- The average price of a new car is now sixty-seven thousand dollars. sixty-seven thousand dollars, and then used cars are now over thirty-eight thousand homes.- Under this tired ten-year liberal government, not only has the cost of housing been pushed out of the grasp of hard work and Canadians, but the cost of car ownership is now becoming something that more and more hardware companies simply cannot afford. In fact, the pie- The price of a used car is now about the same as a down payment on a new house. I mean, that's just astounding. I was astonished. The holiday, Mr. Speaker, we're kind of in the market for an excuse vehicle. You've got another driver in the household this year now. When I'm on a server looking at our kind of expected, I could probably- We find something for my daughter in that ten to fifteen thousand range. In my head, I was thinking something with a little bit less than one hundred thousand kilometres.-may be able to pick up for fourteen or fifteen thousand dollars I just found this on Used Regina. This is a 2018 Jeep Wrangler with one hundred and twenty-three thousand kilometres on it.- How much do you think that might cause my head to think back to when I bought it last week?- That might be something like fifteen, sixteen thousand, or twenty-eight thousand dollars.- twenty thousand dollars for a seven-year-old car with a hundred and twenty thousand clicks on it
- That is something that never used to happen in this country, and there are so many Canadians that used to be able to count on being able to work hard and afford a vehicle, but this busybody liberal government, this Ottawa-knows-best group of elites who like to sit up on high and dictate to Canadians what they must- due to being the right kind of person, and they're doing that by taking away choice, they'll have something in common, you know. They all tend to have to face the consequences of their decisions. They all have this insane need to boss people around and dictate how they're going to live their lives, and
- They all can afford electric vehicles.- But many, many hardware companies can't or simply don't want to. My colleague from Manitoba was talking about how the free market has evolved to produce the kinds of vehicles that people want to buy, and it's the auto industry that's ruthlessly competitive. I mean, meal- Millions of dollars by each of the automakers are spent every single year trying to drill down and find out exactly what it is that consumers want to buy, and then they go out and they offer it to consumers. If it claims by one and not the other, well, then that auto manufacturer has to go back to the drawing board, figure something out, and they have to serve the needs of the market.- but when the government comes in with its heavy-handed bludgeon and says, "No, we're going to take an entire category of vehicles off the table,"
- That's when, Dolly, they distort the market and drive up costs, but they also kill jobs. Let's look at the impacts of this liberal ban on your favourite car or truck. It's going to lead to nearly forty thousand jobs lost. That's not far from my research, misses us from independent analysis that is looking at how- The cost of these vehicles will lead to job losses. A new report says that because of the liberals' failure to get a deal on those unjustified US auditors, another fifty thousand jobs could be lost, so not only is Canada dealing with the terrible policies of the US government- But the auto sector has to deal with the terrible policies of its own domestic liberal government that is a brutal double whammy that is not fair to consumers and not fair to autoworkers, Mr. Speaker.- There are one hundred and twenty thousand auto workers in Canada.- The US has no mandate to ban traditional conventional oil and gas and diesel-powered vehicles. This policy, this insane policy to dictate to Canadians what kind of vehicle they must buy, the maestro will just send even more jobs to Donald Trump's economy.- I don't know why liberals keep finding ways to punish Canadian industry and punish Canadian consumers to drive jobs and investment to the United States. It is a serial part of their DNA, and Canadians will not tolerate this ban on their favourite car or truck. Mr. Speaker- Now I heard a lot of rhetoric about- the need for this to satisfy climate change targets Well, let's have a quick peek at exactly what that looks like because this fan
- according to the government's own documents, will result in approximately three hundred and sixty-two megatons worth of reductions from twenty twenty-four to twenty fifty. That's twenty-six years, so three hundred and sixty-two megatons in twenty-six years on an annual basis.
- That works out to just shy of fourteen megatimes a year.- Now, to put that in perspective, China's greenhouse gas emissions- We're fifteen thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven megatons in twenty twenty-four, so if you just assume that China's emissions stayed flat, they didn't increase at all.- Canada's reduction thanks to this ban on consumers' favourite car, truck, or minivan- will represent point zero eight percent
-point zero eight percent- We are going to cripple our auto manufacturing sector. We're going to deprive Canadians of the ability to buy a car, truck, or minivan at a price they can afford that meets their needs.- Well, China continues to admit more and more every year. We are going to suffer here in Canada; we're going to put up with all the lack of choice and lack of ability to- suit our needs in the way that we see fit, and it will have absolutely no impact on global emissions.- and the insult to injury on that is knowing that Canada could have actually helped reduce those global emissions by exploiting more of our LNG and clean and ethical natural resources to help countries
- We have a kind of say when our allies come looking to buy that clean, unethical energy, but then they turn around and they punish Canadians by taking away their right to choose what kind of vehicle they want to buy.-Chris I just like to close my remarks with a couple of the same sources. I agree with all my colleagues, and so we fear the caves. Oh no, this is kind of a typical playbook by the radical left. They pick a target that's just far enough away that they feel like they won't be around to be held accountable, but it's close enough that it feels like, relax.- being taken, and they kind of slide these things through in bigger packages. That's why cancers are highlighting this today because this ban is already impacting the market; it's already having an effect on driving up costs, and it's only going to get worse.- And I like to close with my favourite quote when I think about busybody liberal government overreach from C.S. Lewis, and he says, "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under a robber baron than under omnipotent moral busybodies." The robber baron- And cruelty may sometimes sate his appetite at some point, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. Stop tormenting Canadians; give them back the freedom to buy the car tracker of their choice.