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Madam Speaker, that is a great and very important question, and I thank the member for serving in the Canadian Armed Forces in a very distinguished way. He indeed is a proud father, as am I, and we both worry about our kids and what future they will have in this country. A third of Canadian youth believe they might have to leave this country because they cannot afford to live here. That is an asto…
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Madam Speaker, we are indeed going to cross the floor after the election. We are all going to do it. We are responsible when it comes to money. The idea of an $80‑billion deficit that is going to increase the cost of living and inflation on the backs of Canadians, including Quebeckers, is unacceptable. That is why we cannot support this costly budget.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate the minister on his first budget speech. It was a very long speech, and given that this Liberal government is adding about $10 million to our national debt every hour, it must be the most expensive speech in the history of this Parliament. I think we can say that while talk is cheap, it is very expensive when a Liberal finance minister speaks. Every dollar the g…
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Mr. Speaker, if he does not find it, it will be over $100 billion in brand new spending, to respond to the Prime Minister's heckles. He also promised that he would invest more. His own budget document lays out a graph showing that every quarter of this year will see private sector business investment collapse. This costly budget forces Canadians to spend more on debt interest than on health care t…
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Mr. Speaker, tomorrow will be the 10th costly Liberal budget. For 10 years, the cost of living for Canadians has been going up. Canadians are already paying too much, but the Prime Minister is asking them to sacrifice even more. The choice for Conservatives is simple. If the budget brings down the cost of living, we will support it. If the budget brings up the cost of living, we will vote against …
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Mr. Speaker, for 10 years, the Liberals have been making exactly the same promises. The Minister of Finance and National Revenue, who used to be the industry minister, is the one who has caused the biggest decline in investment in Canada after promising that deficits would promote investment. Ultimately, the debt, the number of people in food bank lineups and the cost of housing have all doubled. …
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Mr. Speaker, tomorrow will be the 10th costly Liberal budget. After the Liberals doubled housing costs, doubled food bank lineups and doubled the national debt, now they are making exactly the same costly promises. The Prime Minister says that Canadians who cannot afford to eat or heat or house themselves need to make more “sacrifices”. The choice for us is simple. If the budget brings down the co…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have been making those promises for the last nine Liberal budgets, which doubled housing costs and drove 2.2 million people to the food bank because of higher grocery prices. If the member wants ideas for an affordable budget and an affordable life, here is one: There is the Liberal industrial carbon tax, which applies to the steel, cement and other inputs to build homes,…
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Mr. Speaker, the member has to get his story straight. First, he started his answer by saying that there is no industrial carbon tax, and then he finished it by saying that the industrial carbon tax is great and does not cost anybody any money. He has to decide which it is. Here is how it works, for a prime minister who does not understand that Canadians need steel: The industrial carbon tax on st…
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Mr. Speaker, the member has been in the Liberal government for 10 years. He says that he is new but he is making the same promises that deficits will result in investment. The last time the current finance minister promised that, we saw that investment dropped more than in any time in Canadian history and more than in any other G7 country. What went up? The cost of housing doubled. Food went up, d…
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Mr. Speaker, after 10 costly Liberal deficit budgets that caused the debt to balloon and pushed up the cost of food and housing, Canadians deserve an affordable budget for an affordable life. The Prime Minister promised that Canadians would be able to judge him by the prices they pay at the grocery store. Prices have ballooned and the number of people using food banks has doubled. Will the governm…
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Mr. Speaker, it is clear that the Liberal House leader wants to trigger a costly election on a costly budget. However, Canadians should not have to choose between a costly budget and a costly election. They should be able to choose an affordable budget for an affordable life, and that is what we are proposing. Here is one of our proposals: Get rid of the industrial tax on our farmers so that Canad…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians cannot afford a 10th costly budget that drives up the price of groceries and housing. What they need, in fact, is an affordable budget for an affordable life. The Prime Minister, though, has driven up the cost of the bureaucracy, the consultants and therefore inflation, so Canadians are paying more for everything. We have put forward common-sense proposals to make life more …
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Mr. Speaker, there he goes, trying to use a costly budget to trigger a costly election. We know he wants to distract from the fact that the Prime Minister has broken every promise he has made, by triggering a costly election on a costly budget, but Canadians should not have to choose between a costly budget and a costly election. They can choose an affordable budget with an affordable life, and we…
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Mr. Speaker, the member and the Prime Minister are trying to provoke a costly election on their costly budget. They are again playing costly games. This is not about games; this is about the people lining up at food banks, the 2.2 million of them. That number has doubled since the government took office 10 years ago. It's about Jaclyn Stone, who says, “It’s heartbreaking. It’s hard.... It was just…
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Mr. Speaker, these Liberal programs do not feed children; they feed bureaucracy, consultants, lobbyists and insiders. We know that because since they have brought in all of these promises, we have seen food bank use more than double. By the government's own admission, 25% of kids go to school hungry after 10 years of these Liberal policies. Why? It is because the more the government spends, the mo…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadian farmers are the backbone of our economy, in particular our canola producers. I would add that producers in the great riding of Battle River—Crowfoot are particularly renowned. Unfortunately, this $5-billion industry is under attack by unfair Chinese tariffs imposed by the regime in Beijing. This goes along with tariffs on seafood harvesters and other Canadian agriculture and …
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Mr. Speaker, the signature promise on which the Prime Minister was elected was to “negotiate a win” with the Americans, and he promised to get a deal by July 21. Today, there is still no deal, still no win. U.S. tariffs have doubled since the Prime Minister promised to eliminate them. He is blaming an Ontario government ad for the fact that he cannot get a deal. Did the Prime Minister or anyone on…
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Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of inflationary deficit budgets driving up grocery prices, Canadians are literally hungry. According to Food Banks Canada's 2025 HungerCount report, the Liberals have doubled food bank lineups. Now, people with two jobs cannot even afford to buy food. Will the government table, for the first time, an affordable budget for affordable food and affordable living?
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Mr. Speaker, we will not support a budget that drives up the price of groceries like the last nine Liberal inflationary budgets have done. According to Food Banks Canada, there has been a 100% increase in the number of people using food banks. One of those people is Jaclyn Stone, a Manitoba mom who works two jobs but cannot afford food. She works at a grocery store, but she cannot buy groceries. H…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine Liberal tax-and-spend inflationary and costly deficits, Canadians are hungry for an affordable budget and hungry according to a report by Food Banks Canada called the “HungerCount”, which shows that there has been a 100% increase in the number of people relying on food banks since the Liberals brought in numerous taxes on food. Will the Prime Minister finally, for the first…
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Mr. Speaker, if any of that were true, there would not be a 100% increase in the number of people relying on food banks. The numbers speak for themselves. This is after a decade of Liberal inflationary taxes and deficits that have driven 2.2 million people to food banks. One of them is Jaclyn Stone. She works two jobs. She works at a grocery store. She cannot afford to shop at the grocery store wh…
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Mr. Speaker, if they want their budget passed, they have to make it an affordable budget so that there is affordable food and an affordable quality of life for the Canadian people, including people like Jaclyn Stone. As I said, she works at a grocery store and cannot afford groceries. We already know about carpenters who build homes but cannot afford a home after 10 years of the Liberals. This is …
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Mr. Speaker, if any of those promises were actually coming true, we would not have had a 100% increase in the number of people lined up at food banks, a number that has increased again this year after the Prime Minister took office after promising that he would be judged by the prices at the grocery store. A record 700,000 kids are lined up at food banks while the Liberals make phony promises that…
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Mr. Speaker, the signature promise on which the Prime Minister was elected was to negotiate a win with the Americans, to get a deal by July 21. Here we are in late October with still no deal, still no win, still no elbows and still no jobs, and the American tariffs have doubled since the Prime Minister promised he would get rid of them. Yesterday, his latest excuse was that an Ontario government a…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised that he would have a good deal by July 21. That date has come and gone. His latest excuse is an ad from the Government of Ontario. He claims that is why he could not keep his promise to get a deal. Yes or no, did the Prime Minister see the ad before it went out?
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Mr. Speaker, it is the Prime Minister who said that the ad prevented him from keeping his promise and getting a deal. He claims he was on the verge of getting that deal, so surely, if he saw an ad that would interrupt the deal, he would have said no and hit the brakes. The question is, yes or no, did the Prime Minister or anyone on his staff see the ad before it went out?
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Mr. Speaker, being serious means being honest. Did the Prime Minister—
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Mr. Speaker, being honest is a joke to these Liberals.
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Mr. Speaker, did the Prime Minister or his staff see the ad before it went out, yes or no?
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister says the reason he does not have a deal is an ad. Did he or his staff see the ad before it went out, yes or no?
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Mr. Speaker, there are 100,000 more Canadian workers out of a job since the Prime Minister promised to protect their jobs. He says they are going to get the best economy in the G7, but it is the fastest shrinking economy in the G7. I met with auto workers in Windsor over the weekend who are terrified the Prime Minister's failures are going to cost them their jobs. He looked those workers in the ey…
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Mr. Speaker, Food Banks Canada released its HungerCount 2025 report today, which shows a 100% increase in the number of people who have to rely on food banks in Canada since the Liberals came to power. Last year, 39% of the population experienced food insecurity; 53% skipped a meal; 34% went an entire day without eating and 82% of households did not have enough to eat because of the Liberals' infl…
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Mr. Speaker, I am going to paraphrase what Food Banks Canada said in its Hunger Count report. It took decades to reach one million visits to food banks in a month, but just half a decade to more than double that. Let us talk about the Liberals' programs. They have been in power for 10 years and there are now 700,000 children who need food banks. The Liberals' programs feed bureaucracy, not childre…
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Mr. Speaker, Food Banks Canada released its report today, “HungerCount 2025”, showing that the number of Canadians relying on a food bank has more than doubled since the Liberal government took office. It shows that 39% of the population experienced food insecurity, 82% did not have enough to eat, 34% went an entire day without eating, 53% missed a meal to afford something else and 28% went hungry…
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Mr. Speaker, their programs do not feed kids. They feed bureaucracy, consultants, lobbyists and Liberal insiders. If members want to question that, 700,000 kids are lined up at food banks every single month. Let me quote from the report: “It took decades to reach one million visits in a month, and it has now taken half a decade to more than double that.... These are not outliers. This is Canada’s …
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal programs feed bureaucracy, lobbyists, consultants and insiders, but they do not feed kids. Children cannot eat Liberal press releases or Liberal photo ops. Mothers cannot fill shopping carts with Liberal boasting. Canadians need food. Right now, after 10 years of Liberal government, there are 2.2 million Canadians lined up at food banks, 700,000 of them kids. A third are i…
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Mr. Speaker, is their focus affordability? Here are the facts from the HungerCount report: 78% of food banks had to buy more food than normal because they were running out and not collecting enough donations. One quarter of food banks ran out of food while there were still people lined up waiting for something to eat. We now have nearly a third of Canadians going hungry at least once a week. This …
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Prime Minister made a very depressing speech. He said that there were plenty of opportunities when he was young, but that our young people's future will not be as bright as his past. He said that young people will have to make sacrifices. Young people have been making sacrifices for 10 years, while the Liberals doubled the cost of housing, cut jobs and racked up interge…
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Mr. Speaker, apparently the minister did not hear the speech in which the Prime Minister said that young people are going to have to make even more sacrifices after 10 Liberal years that have already forced them to make at least three major sacrifices. The Liberals have made housing unaffordable. They have killed jobs and they have the worst employment numbers in 30 years. They have created interg…
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Prime Minister made a very depressing speech to Canada's youth. He said they would have to make more sacrifices. This is more sacrifices after 10 Liberal years that doubled the cost of housing and drove out the possibility that youth could own their own homes, after the sacrifice of their jobs with the worst employment numbers since the 1990s and after the sacrifice of …
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Mr. Speaker, three apprentices do not account for the countless job losses and the highest jobless rate in 30 years, outside of COVID, caused by this government, nor does it account for the doubling of housing costs and that 80% of young people believe they will never be able to afford a home. The Prime Minister tells our youth that they have to sacrifice even more. All he offers is more costs, mo…
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Mr. Speaker, apparently nobody on the other side listened to the depressing, miserable, hopeless speech the Prime Minister gave to Canadian youth yesterday. He said that Canadian youth need to sacrifice more, when in fact quite the opposite is true. The youth of this country have sacrificed enough. They cannot afford homes, they cannot get jobs and now they have a generational lifetime of debt to …
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Mr. Speaker, it is too bad that the minister did not write the Prime Minister's speech yesterday, because it would not have bored and depressed to tears all the poor students stuck in the room where the Prime Minister spoke about how they would have to sacrifice more and about how it would take time to reverse all the misery that has built up over the last 10 years. Young people want to have homes…
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Mr. Speaker, today, the Prime Minister and I will meet to discuss the tenth Liberal budget. Conservatives want an affordable budget so that Canadians can have an affordable life. The Prime Minister has broken his promise to spend less. He has doubled the deficit he inherited from his government, and inflation is now on the rise. In fact, all measures are higher than the Bank of Canada's target. Wi…
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Mr. Speaker, that is exactly what this Liberal government promised 10 years ago. The result was that they doubled the debt, doubled the lineups at food banks and doubled the cost of housing. Investments in Canada have dropped more than investments in any other G7 country, and more than at any other time in our nation's history. Today, two million Canadians are using food banks, and food inflation …
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Mr. Speaker, today, the Prime Minister and I will meet to discuss the 10th Liberal budget deficit. Our priority as Conservatives is an affordable budget for an affordable cost of living for the Canadian people. The Prime Minister promised he would spend less, but his deficit spending is 100% more. He promised he would be judged by the prices at the grocery store; they are now rising at two times t…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians, according to the Prime Minister, have never had it so good. If someone is a single mother out there walking down the grocery aisle, looking at prices rise before her eyes; if they are a senior choosing between eating and heating; if they are one of the countless Canadians who see that roasted coffee is up 41% since the Prime MInister took office, that nuts and seeds are up …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is saying to that single mother, that small business owner and that senior I just referenced that he needs to give them economic lessons. You are the one out there who is watching prices rise right before—
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is now lecturing Canadians who are lined up at food banks, telling them that they have never had it so good and that, if only they appreciated the many promises he has made, promises he has not even begun to keep, they would then be appreciative of the fact that fresh and frozen beef are up 14%, fresh and frozen cut chucks are up 12%, frozen meat is up 11% and coffe…
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