Lauzon Challenges Ignatieff on Taxes in Question Period

May 08, 2009

Ottawa - In Question Period today, local Member of Parliament Guy Lauzon challenged opposition leader Michael Ignatieff to explain his position on taxes:

“Mr. Speaker, it has been 24 days since the Liberal leader said, ‘We will have to raise taxes.’ In that time, he has neither retracted his statement nor provided any details about his promise to raise taxes. Most surprisingly, the ever-vigilant media that parses each and every Conservative word has refused to press him for details.”

Lauzon is referencing Michael Ignatieff’s earlier statement to the Kitchener-Waterloo Record on April 14th where he said without equivocation he would raise taxes.

“This is not an isolated even,” Lauzon points out. “In an interview with the Toronto Star Ignatieff describes himself as a ‘tax-and-spend, Pearsonian, Trudeau Liberal’.” Since he was elected to Parliament after a 30 year stint outside this country, Ignatieff has advocated for tax hikes of all kinds ranging from a hike on GST, which he told CTV this past December is still ‘on the table’, to the carbon tax which he proposed long before Stéphane Dion.”

Despite the best efforts of Liberal spin doctors, Michael Ignatieff cannot help but reveal his true intentions. The only reason he has returned to Canada after more than three decades of living and working abroad because he feels entitled to be Prime Minister. And it is now more clear than ever that, as Prime Minister, he would raise taxes.