Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives used their self-inflicted debt burden as an excuse to cut front-line services to the most vulnerable. They drove up federal debt by $140 billion.
Who is forced to pay the price? It is low-income families who cannot get their kids into university, the unemployed who cannot get anyone to answer the phone at EI, newcomers to Canada who are told it is not a federal problem if they get sick and die waiting for their refugee claim, and veterans who cannot get a decent burial.
Why do the most vulnerable need to suffer the financial incompetence of the government?