If you don't mind, I just want to finish up. The Liberal government is asking Parliament for another $17 million in advertising, including campaigns that promote tools like mortgage calculators and household budget planners to help Canadians manage their finances. Canadians are struggling with affordability today because of this government's reckless overspending. With higher taxes, rising debt and years of inflation that have driven up the cost of groceries, housing and everyday life, families are already budgeting. They do it every week at the grocery store and every month when the mortgage payment comes due. They're making difficult choices because life has become so unaffordable.
Now the same government that helped create the affordability crisis wants to spend millions of taxpayer dollars advertising lessons on budgeting to the very Canadians it has put under financial pressure. Canadians don't need advertising campaigns telling them how to survive hard times. They need a government that stops making life unaffordable in the first place.
Thank you.