Trudeau has become “wacky tube guy,” MP says

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She’s nothing if not colourful.

Speaking in the House of Commons last week, MP Cheryl Gallant took aim at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government’s decision to lift the carbon tax on home heating oil.

Gallant said that after eight years, “this tired NDP-Liberal government has become increasingly desperate.”

“The prime minister has come to resemble one of those wacky, waving, inflatable tube guys outside car dealerships.

“His hands flail about as the political winds push him around randomly,” she said.

Gallant said that “year after year, the prime minister has claimed that if he did not punish low-income Canadians with higher energy prices, it would lead to the extinction of the human race.”

“In reality, his regressive carbon tax has become a meteor headed for the Liberal Party.

“That is the only reasonable explanation Canadians can take away from the decision to cut the carbon tax on home heating oil. He only cares about the survival of the Liberal Party,” Gallant said…

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