No, I didn't. Unusually, I didn't see it spending more money. I saw just standard amendments.
Division 27 is on the Food and Drugs Act for natural health products. Again, there's no money in or out; it's not additional money. It's a change to an act of Parliament. This is why we call these omnibus bills, in spite of the objections from some.
Division 28 is Food and Drug Act amendments again. It's for cosmetic testing. I automatically think of cosmetic testing as an issue you would have in a budget bill since it involves whether or not we have a balanced budget. Oh, wait. No, it doesn't.
Division 29 is the "Dental Care Measures Act". There are a whole bunch of things in here. It's part of the costly coalition's agreement to have a dental care act. I'd say the fourth party in the House, who signs this NDP costly coalition, allowed itself to be sold short on this since, in essence, it's just a tax rebate. It's not actually a dental plan, as Canadians would come to think of it.
Division 31 is the "Royal Style and Titles Act". That always come to mind when I talk about a budget. In fact, my understanding on the royal style of the Royal Style and Titles Act 2023 is that this extensive budget measure that obviously is thought of as a key budget component puts a snowflake on the crown of the sovereign for his symbol in Canada.
I always think of snowflakes as uniquely Canadian. I don't think snowflakes are anywhere else. There are more pejorative terms that snowflake is used for. It might be a snowflake effort to make the crown more politically correct and woke, but I don't think putting a snowflake on the crown—on a printed crown, not on a real crown because it would melt; it's a symbol of a crown.... I always think of that as a budget item.
In the titles act, they changed the title to the “King” of some of the things that we grant the king in Canada.
We have a new king. I'm sure lots of Canadians watched the pageantry of Canada's head of state being crowned—an important period in time. There were no snowflakes in London, at the time—not that I could see falling. However, apparently, if you live in Minnesota, Colorado or Washington.... Maybe they have snowflakes, too, but apparently our government thinks it's unique to Canada and should therefore be put on the symbol of the Crown. Obviously, it's an essential budget item.
A BeaverTail could have been put on. Yes. There has been some debate by well-known Liberal Warren Kinsella this past weekend, on Twitter, about whether or not people should line up for BeaverTails, a style of deep-fried dough with sugar that is quintessential to Canadians, and quintessential to Ottawa, too.
An act respecting the Royal Style and Titles Act, 2023....I mentioned this.
Division 32 is the "Canada Growth Fund”. That's sort of an oxymoron. It's another one of these programs the government creates that have mediocre results. There's one, it seems.... I live in danger of fall economic statements and budgets. Every time there's a budget, there seems to be a need to create another multi-billion dollar agency that is as effective as the Infrastructure Bank, which, I understand, still hasn't made any significant contributions to Canada's infrastructure. The Canada Infrastructure Bank was supposed to attract all this private sector money.
The Canada growth fund is supposed to create yet another fund focused on.... Well, I don't think the minister quite knew, when she was before the Senate committee and was asked about it. She still doesn't know, but it will have its own act, its own fund, its own board, and lots of bureaucrats around to theoretically dole out Canadian money for some sort of growth. It's not quite clear, but maybe it's a growth in paper—a growth in the size of government, which we know has gone up by 80,000 people since 2015.
If you recall—those who tuned into my first intervention on this—in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, they have, in three years, grown from 10,000 to 15,000 people.