Andrew Scheer GOES OFF On CBC Host LIVE!

Earlier this year, your leader, Pierre Polyev, said that he would be willing to work with the government, collaborate with the government when it made sense, particularly on trade issues.Certainly, the government has also said that they're interested in collaborating.I wonder whether you've seen any willingness to collaborate, particularly since they formed a majority.

Well, first we should take a look at where we are with the end of the session and Canadians should be asking themselves one question.Is anything actually better after a year of Mark Carney?The first thing the Liberals did with their majority was to make life easier.for themselves.While Conservatives were fighting to make life more affordable for Canadians, they stacked the deck on committees and removed the ability for the opposition to control the oversight committees to hold that government up to account.And we can see why.

You know, they've already embroiled in Trudeau -era -like scandals.We've got the Space Pad scandal in Nova Scotia, where they paid $20 million for a piece of land that the company was leasing for $13 ,000.We've got the Prime Minister's fancy catering bill, all kinds of wasteful spending while Canadians are literally lined up in food banks.So Conservatives have said, you know, where the government is doing no further harm or at least doing something that they claim will make things better, we would allow that to pass as we have.And in the meantime, we're pushing for real results, you know, things like actual bail reform so that dangerous offenders stay behind bars and not get released onto the street.These are things that the Liberals just still refuse to actually do.

Just to go back to some of the legislation they pushed through, a lot of it, obviously, and I put this to Stephen McKinnon, was by shutting down debate through closure, time allocation, and other procedures.Obviously, that has a certain effect on you and your ability as an opposition to hold the government to account.Have you now started to think about ways that you can work around some of these proceduresis this just what life is going to be like now with the majority government?

Mark Carney's intent on ramming through his agenda, using those types of tools to cut off debate.He doesn't like debate.He doesn't like to be held to account.He's missed over 100 question periods this year.And it's not just about the fact that he's not showing up.It's why he's not showing up.

And it's because of his record.He's delivered the only G20 economy in a recession.Inflation is still pushing prices up.Every single quarter that he has been Prime Minister of Canada for has seen business investment decline.So it's no surprise that they'd like to implement their agenda without proper scrutiny, because when Canadians look at the actual results, the actual facts, things are getting worse in Canada under Mark Carney, not better.

I'll just push back on the recession.I know that that's the position the Conservatives have taken, but if you talk to the chief economist of the Royal Bank of Canada, for instance, she says what we have seen is not a recession.We've seen a lack of growth, but at this stage it's too early to say that we are in a recession.

Well, we go by the definition of the recession, which is two quarters of negative growth.That's what Canada has.So, you know, I don't want to get into the semantics.I want to talk about the hardship that Canadians are facing.Canadian families are falling further and further.into debt.

Mark Carney presided over one of the biggest single job loss months in years.And all this...

Well, then they recovered the jobs, though.Then they recovered the jobs.

Well, they still net down.And this is coming at a time when the Canadian dollar keeps falling, prices keep going up.And Canadians are sitting back saying, hey, this was a prime minister that said that he was going to move at unimaginable speeds.Ousatrouv, like, where are the results?Still not a single new project has completed the process through the major projects office.Still no movement on repealing bad laws.

laws that chased away investment, and Canadians are paying for that.Higher prices at the grocery store, lost jobs, and falling further and further into debt.This is not what Mark Carney promised Canadians in the last election.

Okay, but to your point, I mean, you can't criticize them for not moving fast enough and then criticize them for shutting down debate on legislation that is allowing them to implement their agenda, can you?

Well, if you look at the bills that we allowed to move quickly through, and specifically with the major projects office, we believe that the better approach to get big projects built in Canada is to remove those laws that block investment, repeal the no new pipeline laws, repeal the West Coast shipping ban.

They have repealed most of them.They have repealed most of them.The industrial carbon tax is still there.The shipping ban is still there.

We said the best thing to do is remove those laws that caused the problem in the first place.Mark Carney said, give him a new bureaucracy and he would get results.So we said, okay, well, you know, you won the election, you get to try it your way.That bill moved through quickly, very quickly through the House of Commons.We're now almost pretty much a year after that bill became law, nothing, absolutely zero results from it.

I want to ask you about CUSMA, if I can, because that's the other thing that's sort of on the horizon.And it does sound now from all sides as though the July 1st deadline, the review deadline, isn't going to be met.That is not the end of the world, as you know.They can continue to talk and negotiate.But what would you like to see from the government to be able to point to Canadians, to say to Canadians, listen, we don't have a deal yet, but we're making progress.What would you like to see from the government?

Well, we'd like to see some kind of consistency.Mark Carney went from elbows up to make America great again.He unilaterally dropped retaliatory tariffs very quietly without informing Canadians about that.So it's difficult to know what the approach is.He says things like who cares when he's asked about the progress.I care on behalf of a lot of people.

I represent in the steel industry and manufacturing.But what we've always said is that we can't control Donald Trump, but we can control what we do here as a country.Mark Carney does not need to impose an industrial carbon tax on Canadian workers, Canadian steel companies, Canadian manufacturers.The American competitors that our businesses have to go and compete with, they don't have to pay that industrial carbon tax.We don't need an American president to force Canada to repealed some of those laws that have chased away investment.We still have those laws in the books, the no new pipelines bill, the shipping ban.

There's all kinds of things we can do in advance of negotiations or while negotiations are taking place that we should be doing anyway to make our economy stronger, to create more jobs and to bring prices, to bring stability to prices.Mark Carney's not doing any of that.He's doubled Justin Trudeau's deficits.That puts pressure on inflation and eventually interest rates.So it's the same.approach just different rhetoric, but the results, that's what Canadians care about.

When they go in the grocery store, they want to see those prices stabilized.They want to see their dollar purchased more.They want to see that investment coming into Canada to actually build things.None of that is happening a year into Mark Carney's administration.

I'm going to end on Alberta, if I can, because your leader is going to do what he's called a unity tour through the summer.He gave a big speech in Alberta.And I guess we'll do other things.I wonder, as someone who's in the province beside Alberta, how you plan to be involved and what your message is if you are going to speak out to Albertans.

Yeah, well, every Conservative will be making the case that a strong Alberta, a strong West, being a Saskatchewan MP, is not just good for Western provinces, it's good for the entire country.And when you look at the things that are causing Western alienation, making people in Western Canada question how our confederation works, it's not because there's actual anger between communities in Canada, it's not because there's hostility, it's because of bad federal legislation that has hurt Saskatchewan.Alberta.And our Conservative message is we can unify our country, not just by running around and telling people to be united, but to undo those terrible policies that cause so much hardship.And when we do that, we are convinced that Albertans and Saskatchewanians will be, those concerns will be alleviated.People in Western Canada are proud Canadians.

They love our country.They love our history.And so the best thing the federal government can do to unify every province is to get government out of the way, allow provinces more control over their proper jurisdictions, and let each region develop the part of the economy that they do best.Here in Saskatchewan, Alberta, it tends to be resource -oriented.were the industries that this Liberal government has targeted and punished for over a decade.So our conservative approach will help unify Canadians by undoing all those terrible policies that caused the hardship in the first place.