Liberals Expose Andrew Scheer’s Planned Debate Stunt

October 7, 2019

Ottawa, ON – Andrew Scheer has spent the 2019 campaign copying the American right-wing playbook, spreading false information to scare and mislead voters. They released an ad about pollution pricing that environmentalists called “highly deceptive,” spread a conspiracy about a notorious killer coming to Canada, and brazenly branded anyone who isn’t a climate-change denier a “climate hypocrite.” Today, Steve MacKinnon, Liberal candidate for Gatineau, is exposing the latest Andrew Scheer stunt designed to mislead Canadians.

The Conservative Party has secretly registered the website “HiddenHomeTax.ca.” They are planning to launch this new website tonight during the English-language Leaders’ Debate. It repeats a blatant falsehood Scheer has been peddling to Canadians for weeks that there is a secret plan to tax people’s homes. It’s not true, and Andrew Scheer knows it. But just like right-wing American politicians, he’s trying to scare people into believing this desperate stunt.

A re-elected Liberal government will make homeownership attainable and secure. Liberals will give up to 10% off the purchase price of your first home with the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive. We will drive prices down by taxing foreign speculators who buy homes and then leave them empty. We will protect families who are being priced out of buying their first home.

This October Canadians have a choice: go backwards to the failed policies and American-style tactics of the Conservatives, or choose forward and build on the progress we’ve made together.

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