Harjit Sajjan in Kelowna on Monday. Two days after a pair of Pierre Poilievre events in the Okanagan gathered more than 1,000 people each, a Trudeau cabinet member said he was proud of how the Liberals handled the pandemic. Minister of International Development Harjit Sajjan held a press conference in Kelowna on Monday to defend the federal budget unveiled last week. Castagne asked him what he thought of the Conservative candidate Poilievre’s turnout during rallies in Kelowna and Vernon on Saturday. “One thing we can be very proud of is our democratic system. “It is wonderful to see that our democracy is being exercised on a daily basis,” Sajjan said. The former Secretary of Defense said that the Liberals of Trinto remain focused on supporting the Canadians and pointed to unemployment rates now at record lows. Sajjan accuses Conservatives of failing to support Canadians during pandemic “I’m extremely proud of the investments we have made to maintain jobs and businesses,” he said. “Just imagine if we had followed some of the cuts that were recommended and these companies were being downgraded μας Our plan was to ensure that businesses could continue.” Poilievre has attacked the Trudeau government for driving inflation by “printing money” that funded pandemic relief programs. The Bank of Canada has now closed its quantitative easing program, which was pumping up to $ 5 billion a week into the economy at the height of the pandemic. Sajjan suggested that the spending was the right step in tackling the pandemic-caused financial crisis. “I am very proud to be with a government that cares about its people,” he said. “Ultimately, this is what the Canadians did. “Yes, the government, our development strategy worked, but in the end it’s all in Okanagan and across the country that have overcome this pandemic.” Other aspects of the Poilievre platform include the refinancing of the CBC, the encouragement of cryptocurrency innovation, the end of the North BC oil tanker moratorium and the reversal of the 2019 government review of environmental legislation.
