Mr. Speaker, when will the Conservative government stop deceiving Canadians?
The Conservatives did it again in the throne speech when they said that families now had a real choice in child care. This is false. As the advocacy group Code Blue for Child Care says:
Any parent knows that a $100 monthly voucher doesn’t create child care and without child care there is no choice. [This] claim is particularly misleading given that the [Conservatives] have not delivered a single one of the 125,000 child care spaces they promised.
They did it again in the throne speech when they said:
Canadians now have a government committed to helping them get the medical care they need more quickly.
This statement was made the same day that the Fraser Institute announced that “wait times for Canadians needing surgery hit an all time high of more than 18 weeks in 2007”.
A Globe and Mail editorial said, “there is nothing to these wait time guarantees....How stupid does the government think voters are?”
They are lying all the time.