Natural Resources  Then, at the natural resource committee just last week, we found out that not only had trees not been planted, but there was no plan and no budget for it; zero trees planted and no plan in place. I know the Prime Minister thinks that the budget will balance itself. Does he also believe that trees will plant themselves?

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  The Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, with her hands-off approach to the crisis, preferred to ignore all the warning signs, believing that the dispute between commercial fishermen and the Mi'kmaq was going to settle itself, just like the Prime Minister thought that a budget would balance itself. However, neither will happen as long as the Liberal government is in office. All of the catastrophic situations that the government causes and ignores will only get worse, and this is causing suffering that can be avoided for many Canadians.

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  They may never experience the same health care, pensions or services their grandparents did. In 2014, the Prime Minister said, “The budget will balance itself”, but his first one was twice the deficit he promised. In four years, he put Canada $87 billion in debt and now, when Canadians need support most, the Liberals are running a massive $343-billion deficit.

Canada Emergency Student Benefit Act  Speaker, the last time the Liberal Party talked about balancing budgets was when it guaranteed Canadians that the budget would balance itself in 2019. Since then, we have not heard hide nor hair of balanced budgets coming from that side of the House. It is quite worrying. The member called it magic money coming from heaven.

The Economy  I am just a farm kid from Saskatchewan, but here is some help for the Prime Minister: 200 is generally bigger than four, but, and here is the kicker, we always need to count the zeroes that follow. Is this Liberal logic the reason why the budget must balance itself?

Government Priorities  Speaker, for the last four years the government has blown through its promise of a balanced budget. Liberals told Canadians the budget would balance itself while they threw huge parties and spent billions of dollars of taxpayer money. The party is over. The money is drying up. The government's high taxes, wasteful spending and massive deficits have put Canada in an incredibly weak position, but now we are up against a global pandemic.

Business of Supply  He was on record saying that we needed to have a balanced budget. Indeed, as he famously said, “the budget will balance itself.” Of course, budgets do not balance themselves and we are left with a $30-billion structural deficit, in addition to over $100 billion of deficit spending. My friends across the aisle like to say that Stephen Harper had billions of dollars in deficit.

Business of Supply  The lead-off track on this album, which is one of my favourites, is called “the budget will balance itself”, written by the professor of peoplekind himself, the Prime Minister of Canada. As a follow-up, he hiked up taxes on low-income families and then said they do not pay any taxes, seemingly unaware of the fact that they do.

Finance  His only complaint was that the deficits were not big enough. We left him with a balanced budget. He promised that in 2019 the budget would balance itself. He is off by just $20 billion on top of the taxes he raised on the middle class. The Prime Minister broke that promise. Which other promises will he break if he is re-elected?

Government Policies  Speaker, let us look back to 2015 and some of the promises that were made by the Prime Minister. There would be modest deficits and the budget would balance itself in 2019. That was false. The deficit is at $22 billion this year and mounting. Then there was the reinstatement of life-long pensions for veterans. That was false again. We have seen multiple ethics scandals, a disastrous India trip, the payment to Omar Khadr, the SNC-Lavalin scandal, the Mark Norman affair, and threats to our security and sovereignty.

Extension of Sitting Hours  The Liberals worked hard on finding ways to run endless deficits, to the point where it would take decades for the budget to balance itself, as our Prime Minister said. The Liberals have also worked hard on virtue signalling. In fact, they have that one down to an art form. What about actual hard work and actual accomplishments here in the House of Commons?

Canada–Madagascar Tax Convention Implementation Act, 2018  It is no wonder the government needed to rack up record spending and record deficits to distract Canadians. If my memory serves me correctly, 2019 was supposed to be the year the budget would balance itself, like so many babies on the campaign tour that the Prime Minister is now on. In 2015 he said, “I am looking straight at Canadians and being honest the way I always have. We said we are committed to balanced budgets, and we are.

Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada  Speaker, the Prime Minister has let down Canadians who voted for him in 2015. He promised the budget would balance itself. It has not. He promised huge investments in infrastructure. It turns out the money is stuck in Ottawa. He promised real action on climate change. Instead, Canadians received more taxes.

Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada  Mr. Speaker, in 2015 the Liberal leader said that the budget would balance itself in four years, but instead he saddled Canadians with a massive deficit with nothing to show for it but tax hikes and job losses. He said he would be a feminist, but instead he used his power to smear and denigrate strong women who spoke truth to his abuse of power.

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  He broke his word and the Prime Minister's word that they would balance the budget this year—or, more accurately, that the budget would balance itself. He has increased the cost of government by 25% in three short years, and on top of that, middle-class Canadians are paying, on average, $800 more per household. With all of these broken promises, can the finance minister tell us why Canadians should believe anything he or his Prime Minister have to say?