Liberals blame war in Iran for lost jobs, housing crisis

· Toronto Sun

Welcome to this edition of Ridiculous Things the Liberals Said, where the war in Iran is the reason Canadians are unable to find work and can’t afford to buy a house.

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First up is Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation.

During Friday’s Parliament session, Pat Kelly, Conservative MP of Calgary Crowfoot, brought up the dismal job numbers in Canada, calling the108,000 full-times jobs lost — the largest one-month drop since the onset of COVID-19 six years ago — and youth unemployment now over 14% “a scathing indictment of the Liberal government’s economic performance.”

After noting that Canada now boasts the second-highest unemployment rate, Kelly posed the very reasonable question: “Will the Liberals accept our Conservative proposals, including our youth jobs plan, and remove the taxes, red tape and bureaucracies that are killing Canadian jobs?”

The Liberal minister responded with a non-answer.

“There is a war raging that is affecting prices everywhere,” Solomon said emphatically. “In this chaos, Canada is in a strong position. Why? It is because we prepared. We invested in jobs and industries like auto, steel and aluminum. We made sure to keep life affordable for all Canadians with our groceries and essentials benefit for 12 million Canadians. We are cutting taxes. Why? We have a plan.”

He added: “Preparing before a crisis is our way; complaining after a crisis is theirs.”

Kelly wasn’t done, however, noting how the Liberal government, for the past decade, “has passed antidevelopment laws, run up the national debt, driven down productivity, driven up the cost of living, bloated the bureaucracy, enriched Liberal insiders and made Canada the only G7 country with a shrinking economy.”

Solomon rebounded by listing so-called Liberal “breaking news” items, including tax cuts for 22 million Canadians, the groceries and essentials benefit, the investment in defence and how they’ve made it easier for first-time homebuyers.

However, political commentator Ryan Gerritsen wasn’t buying it, calling Solomon’s finger-pointing “unbelievable,” and agreeing with another X user that, sadly, Liberal voters will believe the minister’s declarations.

A second X user commented, “They blame everything and everyone but themselves. Typical Liberals.”

A third person agreed, calling the Liberals “lame” and “textbook manipulative losers.”

Another joked (?): “I suppose they’ll blame the weather next.”

Next up is Canada’s Minister of Housing and Infrastructure, Gregor Robertson, who was slammed for saying during a recent Question Period that Canadians have been unable to purchase homes because of the war — which began on Feb. 28.

“It’s no surprise that Canadians are challenged with buying homes right now when there’s a war in the Middle East,” said the man tasked with fixing Canada’s housing crisis.

Naturally, Canadians took the opportunity to mock the minister.

“The war has been a minute long, Canadians haven’t been able to buy houses for a lot longer,” one person on Reddit pointed out.

“That is possibly the most cynical, intelligence insulting explanation I’ve ever seen. Like, how can this be acceptable?” another asked.

A third mused: “I just wish there was a housing minister that wasn’t tone deaf and incompetent. Is it really that hard?”

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