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Mr. Chair, will the minister collect the rest of the $20 billion that is outstanding from what the Prime Minister said?
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Mr. Chair, how much in tariffs will be collected in July?
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Mr. Chair, if the minister does not know, the officials are sitting there, and he can ask them as well. How much in tariffs will be collected in September?
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Mr. Chair, tariff collection was a part of the Liberals' costed platform. Now there will be a downfall. How big will the deficit be if the remaining amount will not be collected?
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Mr. Chair, can the minister tell us on what date the budget will be tabled?
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Mr. Chair, in that budget, how much will they project will be collected from the U.S. tariffs?
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Mr. Chair, if there is a shortfall in that budget from U.S. tariffs, how does the minister plan on addressing that? Would it be by borrowing, taxing or cutting?
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Madam Chair, the Prime Minister, in the throne speech, said that the Liberals would cap government spending at 2%. It took only an hour and a half after that, and when the main estimates were released by the minister, they said that they were going to spend at 8%. Can the minister confirm that the deficit will not be larger than the $46.8 billion that was projected in the Liberal platform?
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Madam Chair, can the minister confirm today that when the budget comes out this fall, it will not be a dollar over that?
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Madam Chair, can the minister tell us how much his government will borrow to cover the debt for the new spending?
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Madam Chair, Desjardins is predicting that the number could be $600 billion. What will that do to the debt interest cost? Will it go up, or down?
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Madam Chair, that was not my question. In the FES, the total debt shows as $1.27 trillion. That means the amount that is going to be borrowed will be half of the total debt that Canada has. Can the minister confirm whether the debt interest costs in the budget will go up, or down?
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Madam Chair, this is not very hard. The minister can easily answer. Will debt interest costs this year go up, or down, from what was projected?
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Madam Chair, obviously the number must be very bad, because the minister keeps avoiding answering a very simple question. The current Prime Minister is projected to spend more than Justin Trudeau did, by more than $225 billion over the next five years. How big will the debt servicing costs get, just the number?
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Madam Chair, the Parliamentary Budget Officer is projecting that in year 2029-2030, the debt servicing costs will be $70 billion. Last year, the debt servicing was more than what goes to health care transfers to the provinces. Can the minister confirm whether, at $70 billion, that will be more, or less, than what gets transferred to the provinces in health care transfers?
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Madam Chair, is it fair, according to the minister, that bankers and bondholders are getting more money than what goes to the provinces for health care transfers? Is that compassionate, according to the minister?
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Madam Chair, will the amount that goes to the provinces in health care transfers be more, or less, than the debt servicing costs next year?
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Mr. Speaker, pipelines are crucial for Canada's economic prosperity. With the weight of his office, will the Minister of Finance push for the construction of new national pipelines?
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Mr. Speaker, does the finance minister believe that all Canadian taxpayers should pay the tax that they owe, yes or no?
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Mr. Speaker, when the minister was a Trudeau minister, his government claimed to crack down on wealthy Canadians evading taxes by moving money offshore. Did the government's efforts capture the current Prime Minister's actions, setting up offshore investment funds worth $25 billion?
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Mr. Speaker, the minister is evading the question altogether. When the Prime Minister was at Brookfield, he set up offshore funds in the most notorious tax havens, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. Did the government's offshore crackdown cover the Prime Minister's shady activities, yes or no?
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Mr. Speaker, I would be happy if the minister could actually answer a question. Of the funds the Prime Minister set up, one was headquartered at a local bike shop. Would the government's actions cover this type of tax evasion, yes or no?
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Mr. Speaker, as the Minister of Finance, will he commit to ensuring that any company Brookfield is invested in and the Prime Minister has interest in will not unfairly receive government grants, loans or funding?
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Mr. Speaker, does the minister believe a single premier in this country should have the power to veto national energy projects vital for our economic future?
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Mr. Speaker, does the finance minister believe a single premier can veto a project that is in the national interest?
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Mr. Speaker, does the Minister of Finance believe that the oil and gas cap is helpful to building national energy projects, yes or no?
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my great colleague, who is a great pancake-flipper when he helps out at my Stampede breakfast every single year. Not only his daughter but his granddaughter lives in my riding. I will answer his question in a different way, with my own personal experience. I came from small business. We were home builders before this. We were building homes at a time when there was a c…
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Mr. Speaker, these are the same Liberal ego and hypocrisy. Canadians sent me to this House; my constituents sent me to this House, and I will continue to be their voice. In fact, more Canadians, over eight million Canadians, voted for the Conservatives and their plan. If that member was so sure, why did the Liberals start stealing our ideas? As I said before, if they really wanted to, they should …
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moved: That, given that, (i) the Prime Minister said he will be held to account by prices Canadians pay at the grocery store, (ii) under the Liberal government, food inflation continues to rise, forcing families to eat less nutritious foods, (iii) Canadian families will pay $16,834 for food this year, an $800 increase from last year, the House call on the government to present a fiscally responsib…
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Mr. Speaker, we need more competition. We need more grocery stores. It is as simple as that.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague and congratulate him on coming back to the House. There are a number of things that can be done. We can get rid of the industrial carbon tax. The Liberal government can stop attacking our farmers, so that we can bring down the cost of what it costs to farm in this country. We need to increase competition, and we are only going to do that if we get rid of the …
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Mr. Speaker, the government's budgetary watchdog is sounding the alarm bells that interest on the federal debt will soar past $70 billion in four years. Debt interest payments already exceed provincial health care transfers, military spending or total GST revenue. However, the Prime Minister wants to spend even more money than Justin Trudeau did without tabling a budget. Canadians want to know, on…
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Mr. Speaker, that guy should apologize for collecting carbon tax for the last 10 years. Now the OECD says Canada will be hit the hardest in a looming global slowdown as investment fees, unemployment and core inflation climb. The Prime Minister already broke his promise of capping spending at 2%. Instead, he will spend 8% and half a trillion dollars in inflationary spending. Why do the Liberals not…
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