The night before parliament is set to resume for the final time before this fall's election, federal Conservative leader Andrew Scheer rallied his party's 96 MPs by attacking the Liberal government's fiscal stewardship.
In a speech following a three-day caucus retreat in the nation's capital, Scheer claimed that "if Justin Trudeau is re-elected, your taxes will go up."
"Everything from gas to food to taxes will cost you more," he predicted.
According to Scheer, a second-term Trudeau Government would have no choice but to raise taxes after several years of deficit spending. The Tory leader accused the Prime Minister of having "no plan" to return to a balanced budget.
The Liberals, for their part, have not indicated any plans to raise corporate or income taxes, nor the GST.
And in what may have been a warning to voters considering abandoning the Conservatives for the right-wing alternative in Maxime Bernier's upstart People's Party, Scheer insisted that his party was the only one that could stop the Liberal Party from winning another four years in office.
Canada's next federal election is scheduled to be held on October 21st of this year.