Mr. Speaker, the real issue is, is government spending enough of our money or not? That is the real question that Canadians will be asking themselves. Most Canadians are saying that the government spends enough of their money and that it spends a whole lot more of their money than it should.
Our money is burning a hole in the pocket of the government. It thinks of wonderful new ways to spend it, like sending young people across the country who are trying to get an education, some skills training and looking forward to a stable job with a decent income. It thinks of feel good programs instead of the substance that our country needs. Then the government says “We are going to spend half of your money for you because we know better”.
The real question for Canadians is, do they want government spending more and more of their money? Or, do they want to say to the government that it is spending enough, that it needs to put some of the money it has been spending on wasteful, frivolous things back into key programs like health care, solid education for our children, proper salaries for our military and addressing the real problems of this country?
Let Canadians spend their own money. They will do it better than the government.