Thank you, Chair.
I'll try to make this quick, and I'm hoping we can get to a vote quickly. I hope you'll pause my time because I want to move a motion that we have tabled, and I believe it's been distributed to everyone.
Given the large workload the committee has on the docket, the committee instructs the chair to book five meetings between July 8 and September 13, while the House is adjourned, to deal with unfinished business and pressing matters facing Canadians, including the cost of living crisis, housing crisis and the impact capital gains tax changes will have on Canadian small businesses.
Common-sense Conservatives are moving this motion because after nine years of Justin Trudeau and the Liberal-NDP government, they've created a cost of living crisis. Mortgages and rents have doubled. Housing costs are out of control. This is all while there is a housing crisis that the government caused.
Carbon tax one and carbon tax two have made gas, groceries and home heating more expensive. We found out today that one in four Canadians are not only food insecure, but also living in poverty, and there's record food bank usage across the country. OSFI is warning of a price shock for mortgage holders. Loan loss provisions at Canada's banks are at all-time highs. Organized crime and foreign actors are involved in money laundering in Canada. TD Bank is accused of money laundering the proceeds of fentanyl sales by Chinese drug lords. The job-killing capital gains tax hike punishes workers, small business owners, farmers, fishers, tradespeople and the family members who inherit property from loved ones.
Justin Trudeau has doubled the national debt, and now Canada spends more on servicing the debt than it does on health care transfers to the provinces. There are significant issues plaguing this country, yet the Liberal-NDP government is more focused on ramming through half-baked omnibus bills and tax hikes than it is on listening to real Canadians who are suffering from Justin Trudeau's policies and Chrystia Freeland's spending, all being propped up by the NDP to protect Jagmeet Singh's pension.
Common-sense Conservatives are ready to work for Canadians over the summer. I hope that my other colleagues around the table are too.
Thank you.