Poilievre criticizes Trudeau over proposed tax hikes in 1st question period as new leader | FULL

Canada’s House of Commons returned for its first seating since the summer break, with the Conservative Party’s Pierre Poilievre appearing in his first session of question period as the new official opposition leader. “Canadians have had the costs they must pay for monthly housing bills go from 32 per cent of their paycheque to 50 per cent of their paycheque. And what’s the prime minister’s solution? To reduce their paycheques by taking a bigger bite out of them with higher payroll taxes, and he wants to raise gas taxes, home heating taxes, and indirectly grocery prices by tripling the carbon tax,“ Poilievre said during the session. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was not in attendance for Tuesday’s sitting because he was in New York City for the start of the leader-level debates at the 77th General Assembly of the United Nations tackling climate change, gender equality and sustainable development. The first pieces of legislation tabled by the government in t