"Sorry?" Pierre Poilievre Easily SCHOOLS CTV Reporter After INSANE CLAIM LIVE!

What you've proposed to address inflation is less government spending over the past few years, but at the same time you are proposing cutting these gas taxes, which will increase demand and therefore inflation. Why should Canadians trust your economic credentials?

Sorry, I don't understand your framing there. You say that lowering a tax on gas will increase inflation?

Increase demand for the gas, which again could increase inflation.

Okay, that's an interesting one. I've never heard anyone saying lowering taxes on gas could possibly increase inflation. Exactly the opposite has happened. Every time you reduce gas taxes, go across the provinces that have done this in Alberta, in Manitoba, and in Ontario, when they reduced gas taxes, inflation in those provinces went down next compared to their neighboring provinces.

But you know, I guess, you know, the liberal mindset is that the way that you address inflation is through higher taxes. We've seen how that's worked. Canadians can't afford to eat after a year of the carny Liberals and after a decade of this Liberal government. They can't afford homes after a decade of this Liberal government.

So we see that more spending and more taxing by the Liberals makes life impossible for hard-working Canadians. They deserve an affordable and prosperous country and that's what Conservatives would They deserve an affordable and prosperous country and that's what Conservatives would deliver.