HALIFAX: The government of Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced plans to partially lift the national sales tax on a number of items and issue checks to millions of Canadians who are facing rising costs and looming federal elections on Thursday.
The steps come back of an election that may take place anywhere between this fall and October because of a cost-of-living crisis that has caused discontent among voters with Trudeau.
” Our government ca n’t set prices at the checkout, but we can put more money in people’s pockets”, Trudeau said at a news conference in Toronto.
Under the plan, Canadians who worked in 2023 and earned up to 150, 000 Canadian dollars ($ 107, 440 ) will receive a check for 250 Canadian dollars. Yet those making at the high conclusion of that figure had been having trouble getting by, according to Trudeau.
An estimated 18.7 million Canadians may get the one-time test.
The national goods and services tax break had started Dec. 14 and stop Feb. 15.
The authorities said the tax break will apply to a number of things including family’s clothing and shoes, toys, diapers, restaurant dishes, beer and wine. Additionally, it applies to video game consoles, treat options, and holiday plants.
Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the opposition, described the announcement as a” two-month temporary tax trick” that wo n’t make up for the rising carbon taxes.
Trudeau has stated that he will lead his Liberal Party to the upcoming vote, which may take place in October. In more than a century, there have n’t been four straight terms for prime minister of Canada.
After about ten times of Conservative rule, Trudeau regained the star power of his father in 2015. However, Pierre Trudeau’s child, who was later prime minister, is now in difficulties. People have been frustrated by the cost of living coming out of the Covid-19 crisis.
In the most recent Nanos poll, the Liberals are ahead of the Conservatives 39 % to 26 %. The sample size in the 1, 047-responsel ballot is plus or minus 3.1 %.
” Socially, it’s probably too much too soon and it feels like a hungry move on the part of an unhappy state”, said Daniel Beland, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal. ” It’s likewise bad government policy, at least from a fiscal point”.
