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Madam Chair, it sounds like the answer is no, so why is the minister asking Canadians for a blank cheque for his spending?
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Madam Chair, does the minister actually think it is right to show the deficit after the money is spent?
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Madam Chair, for 60 years, governments have tabled budgets in the spring. Why can the minister not do the same?
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Madam Chair, many thanks for that. I do request an answer, though. Why did the minister make the time to prepare a spending plan but not a plan for how he was going to pay for it?
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Madam Chair, the minister prepared a spending plan, but he did not make the time to prepare a plan for how he was going to pay for it. Why is that?
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Madam Chair, does the minister not have the will to prepare a budget this spring?
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Madam Chair, we are talking about the respect for taxpayers' dollars. I have a scenario, an example, for the minister. Will the minister hand me $486,000 today if I give him a list of the investments I am going to make but I cannot tell him how I am going to pay him until the fall?
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Madam Chair, we are talking about a difference of $40, but I have another question. If single mothers can budget to feed their kids, why can the minister not budget to run this country?
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Madam Chair, the measure was going to reduce taxes by $800, but the cost of food is also going up by $800: $800 minus $800 equals zero. Canadians are not going to be better off. Will the minister please deliver a budget?
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Madam Chair, there is an affordability crisis. People are going hungry, and they are going to the food bank. The hunger and the affordability crisis are not going to wait until the fall. We need a budget this spring. Why is the minister forcing Canadians to wait?
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Madam Chair, if the budget will be so great, why is the minister afraid of tabling it this spring?
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Mr. Speaker, yes, I wonder if the Liberal government would take a lesson from private industry, a lesson from Brookfield Asset Management, because Brookfield does prepare a budget before it spends. It is a basic practice, but the Liberals are refusing to put forward a budget, and they are taking the time to ask for $486 billion in new spending. That is irresponsible.
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Mr. Speaker, it is said that inflation is cooling, but families are not feeling it. That is because the real cost of living is not measured on spreadsheets. It is measured at the grocery store, the gas station and the dinner table. Everywhere I go, I hear about it. The price of groceries has soared. Homes are out of reach. Mortgage renewals have doubled. Rents are breaking records. Families are li…
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Mr. Speaker, the reality is that the government stole three platform points from Pierre Poilievre's plan, one of which was cutting income taxes by 1%. We are talking about the budget here. Let us talk about numbers. This tax cut would save Canadians $800, but the Liberals' inflationary spending is increasing the cost of food by $800 a year. The simple math is that $800 less $800 equals zero. How a…
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Mr. Speaker, the responsible thing to do is what every family, every business and every government must do, which is to deliver a budget at the beginning of the fiscal year, not after authorizing $486 billion in spending.
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Mr. Speaker, the reality is that inflationary spending causes our dollar to weaken because the government floods the economy with excess borrowed money and it weakens our dollar, raising the cost of everything.
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