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Capital gains reversal if party forms govt: Poilievre

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 16 Jan, 2025 01:58 PM

Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he will reverse an increase on the capital gains tax introduced last June if his party forms the next government.

Speaking in Tsawwassen today at the site of a housing development under construction, Poilievre says the Liberal governments changes in the capital gains tax changes have stunted job creation, while funding handouts to large businesses and corporations.

BREAKING: I am announcing today common sense Conservatives will reverse last June’s Liberal tax hike on capital gains—a tax economists agree will kill 400,000 jobs.

This Liberal jobs tax was a bad idea before President Trump’s tariff threat, it is outright insanity now.

AXE… pic.twitter.com/UfTPRo8KBk
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) January 16, 2025

Poilievre says the Trudeau Liberals have hamstrung Canada’s ability to negotiate with incoming U-S president Donald Trump on his tariff threat, noting the lack of pipelines and energy plants that have forced Canadian energy exports to rely heavy on the United States.

Poilievre also says he has ordered his staff to “stay away” from TikTok due to the social media platform’s risk of infiltration by what he described as a “hostile regime” in China. (The Canadian Press)

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