I'll continue.
Once again, the Prime Minister, before and during the election, said multiple times that he was a man with a plan. He said that he had some type of plan to get this country back on track. However, he helped over the last five years, as Justin Trudeau's main economic adviser, to cause the worst inflationary crisis in Canadian history with the most rapid interest-rate hikes in Canadian history. He supported a consumer and an industrial carbon tax that went up every single year. That made the cost of food go up every single year and forced more and more families to go to food banks. In fact, it doubled food bank usage in this country, making the rate of inflation on food go up faster than any other country in the G7. They made more and more Canadians go into insolvency because they doubled the cost of housing.
This is the same Prime Minister who, over the last five years, caused all this pain and misery. Then he turned around and said that he had a plan. A budget is a plan. At first he said that there would be no budget. Then, through Conservative pressure, he said that there would be a mini-budget. Now, supposedly, we're supposed to have a full-on fall budget, but the one in four families who are skipping meals, who are standing in food bank lines, can't wait for that. Canadians are desperate to know the state of Canada's finances after this government has already promised.... The Prime Minister has promised that he's already going to spend more than Justin Trudeau. In fact, the total debt on Canadians today is around $1.27 trillion, and the Prime Minister has promised that he's going to spend more than Justin Trudeau right away, with about $600 billion in new spending.
Canadians need to know what's going to happen to their taxes. They need to know what's going to happen to Canada's credit rating with all this expenditure. We all know that, on this Prime Minister's advice, they drove out around $600 billion of good Canadian investment to other places, mostly to the U.S.
Under the Liberal government's watch, now more than ever, unemployment is up; it's at 7%. Youth unemployment is up. There are no jobs for the youth who are graduating, so a lot of them are moving out. We've heard of newcomers who are living in their cars and living under bridges. This doesn't sound like a first world country anymore, after 10 years of Liberal government. They've now refused to present a budget to Canadians that would be clear and transparent on what way and what direction they're going to take the government.
They put up anti-energy laws, such as Bill C-69, which doesn't let any new pipelines get built. What Canada desperately needs is to become an independent energy superpower. With that bill in the way, no mines are going to get built, no pipelines are going to get built, and no big infrastructure can get built. We've seen that. That's why investment has been fleeing out of Canada. With Bill C-48, we can take our product to the west coast, but it can't go anywhere. Those are markets that desperately need Canadian energy.
The world needs Canadian energy, but this Liberal government wants to make sure that our product stays in the ground. Other dictatorships are the ones that are benefiting from that. The environment doesn't benefit in any way—because clean, low-carbon energy can come from Canadian energy because we have the best economic standards—