Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party is pledging to raise the basic personal income tax deduction and lower cell phone bills if re-elected next month.
The Liberals would raise the basic personal income tax deduction — the threshold under which no taxes are paid — to $15,000 for people earning under $147,000. Currently, the basic personal deduction is $12,069. The increase would be phased in, reaching $15,000 by 2023, the party said in a statement Sunday.
“I’ve been talking to Canadians across the country and I keep hearing the same thing: even with our strong economy and record unemployment, it’s still tough to make ends meet,” Trudeau said. This measure alone will lift about 40,000 Canadians out of poverty, according to the party, as the “average family” saves $585 per year. It’s also expected to cost an annual $5.6 billion by the time it’s fully implemented, and paid for by soon-to-be-announced “measures that make our tax system fairer for Canadians,” the Liberals said. If re-elected, the Liberals would also seek to reduce the cost of wireless services by 25 per cent within four years, according to the statement.
“Cell phone bills in particular put a lot of pressure on a family’s budget, with Canadians paying up to twice as much for wireless services than people in other G7 countries,” the party said in the statement.
And everybody gets a pony and ice cream.
Tell you what I'll gladly pay an extra 25% to punt this dope!
Haha sure I believe him.. Some more wooden nickles please. Seriously 4 years so by the end of your wishful thinking second term you'll maybe drop my phone bill 25%... Bullshit!
Another promise he will not fulfill
With our tax dollars but saying oh here is rebate,and we all say how great we are getting it free DUH
In other news the media union continues to desperately try and get the liberal party re-elected with their propaganda
I’ll pay my own bills, thank you.
Won't happen.
Nice sponsored news.
I pledge to cut the price at Wal-Mart by 27%
how by enforcing competition laws. or by spending billions on infrastructure
Cell phones are not a necessity of life. Cutting income taxes by 25% would help make real necessities more affordable. Costing these promises is the real shell game and only sounds nice.
Just in: Trudeau promises rainbows and ponies for everyone.
That is nothing for Canadians! We need a balanced budget and to get rid of the National debt!
By negotiating with them? Seriously?
Is that anything like “ we will balance the budget”?
Maybe
I don't want to live in a country where the government thinks it has that kind of power.
Of course he does. As soon as the liberals start to struggle the start throwing around our money.
Bullshit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Except like all his promises no idea how
Just bc he's feckless and shallow, he thinks everyone else is too.
Who?
Is anyone else asking for a prime minister to be capable of lowering cell phone bills? Are cell phones necessities? Should this be the job of the prime minister Or should he be more concerned with national matters like oil, gas, agriculture, dairy, steal, increase crime ,ect?
Isn’t it amazing, Truedope figures he can force wireless CO’s to drop prices.... Like he’s doing with oil and pipelines😂
So Trudeau is going to convince cell companies to drop their prices the same way he convinced China to release the Canadians held in a Chinese prison? Nothing but empty words from an empty suit.
Comes with a free pony!
Notice the “withn 4 years”. It will never happened. That’s at least one thing we can take away from Trudeau’s term as PM , besides wry poor policies, he rarely keeps an election promise. elxn43 cdnpoli TrudeauMustGo
The cellphone bills will cut themselves! cdnpoli
Oh, you mean that stuff you should have been working on four years ago? You can cram your bribery into a very uncomfortable place.
Seriously? Where’s he been the last 4 years?
That's a joke. He blocked American competition.
Easy confiscate every 4th phone especially those that own AR-15's 🤣
Another thing liberals won’t follow through with
He will raise taxes to pay for it
Bullshit artist
Was he wearing blackface while promising it?
Within 4 long years hahaha
Not exactly what he pledged- read the fine print
Justin promised to do politics differently & to be more transparent. He promised to balance the budget in 2020. He promised electoral reform. He promised to fix Phoenix pay. He promised he didn't do anything wrong on his island vacation. He promised he didn't interfere with JWR.
You spelled “National Post aspiring to draw millions of Trudeau media subsidy dollars annually”.
Just like Wynne in Ontario, Trudeau makes election campaign promises for things he had years to address but didn't. The last meaningful consumer protection legislation on cell phone rates, plans and contracts was in 2013.
4 yrs?!!!! But we die in 11!
Don’t supose providers will “increase services” to tac the savings back on?
Desperate lie for gullible liberal lemmings to latch on to. I’ll believe this when I see him balance a budget and pay for his pharmacare without raising taxes at any level to pay for it. Scumbag
How more tax dollars
He is looking to decrease his blackface by 25% too he can commit to a 100% decrease. Diversion politics.
Didnt we hear this before
Cell phone bills don’t make Canada 🇨🇦 Prosper. WakeUpCanada LiberalsMustGo
4 YEARS!!!!! No way that will ever happen and why just 25%? Once again, the self praising show boy is a LOOSER👎
Lies lies lies
Wow Ill save 15$ a month...wonder what the carbon tax is costing me 🤔
Why do I have trouble believing him.
🤔 I call bs
So why now ..... could have done it 4 years ago .
More BS lies from this clown. Will say or promise anything to get re-elected. Absolute phoney.
I can Telus, Rogers, Fido, Virgin, and every other mobile/telecom services provider go. Trudeau cdnpoli
And free flowers for life. What a joke. Targeting the youth BlackfaceTrudeau
It’s a stretch goal. He means somewhere between 0 and 25%.
Woah someone get a hold of Justin and his rabid far left fantasy world policies
Ah... CBC had only25%...4 years? Lol, what a nonsense.... why 4 years?
Way too little to late..!
Desperation
I’m more interested in what the cell companies have to say. Trudeau’s an ass.
More bushit lies from BlackfaceTrudeau . JustinTrudeau has increased.cost of living across the board with his tax hikes and carbon tax. Time for him to go. TrudeauWorstPM elxn43
He pledged to balance the budget this year. Instead, our annual deficit is $15 billion, and growing, thanks to him wanting to be re-elected. Just say no.
Lie.
He's going to have to ask one of the only two carriers who own networks in Canada, to rent out MORE usage on their networks, again. So that politicians can again boast that they're created more competition in Canada's very controlled market/industry. pseudocompetitors
They can't under new free trade agreement so they need to renegotiate USMCA
When has Trudeau ever lied to us?
Still waiting for the 250,000 day care promised last time. Update...zero, nada,none,plan only, 0000000.
Trudeau also promised electoral reform and that would have been much easier to achieve. cdnpoli
PromisesPromises
They are reaching for anything they can vaguely promise
Sounds like the Butts Wynne Liberals were going to lower insurance rates by 15%. Butts Trudeau are just lying creeps.
What is it 2 or 4 years
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