Save business from tax hikes

Local businesses are the backbone of our economy. They’re where we work and where we meet — the heart and soul of our communities.

Canadians expect their government to stand up for these local businesses. But Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are planning huge new tax hikes that will hit these local businesses when they can least afford it.

It’s gotten so bad that even the local Liberal Member of Parliament Wayne Easter had to speak out against it.

He said, “The communications was just god-awful… Whoever drafted that doesn’t have a clue about the amount of effort that goes into being a small business or how it’s established. The communications made people feel that they were being accused of abusing the tax system.”

I couldn’t agree more. The Trudeau Liberals can’t control their reckless spending, and this new tax grab is putting local businesses at risk.

With such a short consultation period and barely any parliamentary study on this issue, it’s clear the Trudeau government is not interested in how this will impact communities across Canada.

They don’t care about how this will affect local businesses or the families who run them.

More needs to be done to stop the Liberals’ #unfairtaxchanges. We must also ask that MP Easter speak to his fellow Liberal MPs, minister Morneau, and Prime Minister Trudeau to make sure these tax changes never go through.

Our local businesses and farmers deserve it.

Pierre Poilievre, MP, Conservative finance critic