Mr. Speaker, a budget bill is not a catch-all that the government can stuff with whatever it wants, yet the Conservatives' Trojan Horse makes cuts everywhere: employment insurance, fisheries, pensions, science, the environment, immigration, and the list goes on.
No one is safe when the Conservatives get out their chainsaw, but the people of this country are not fools. They see everything the government is trying to make them swallow in this ill-considered bill. They hear bones cracking when the Prime Minister twists his backbenchers' arms to make them accept the unacceptable. And most importantly, they know that more and more of their fellow Canadians from one end of the country to the other feel that the Conservatives are going too far, that they are trying to pull the wool over Canadians' eyes with this shoddy, hasty process, and that enough is enough.
They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind, and the whirlwind is upon them.
When Conservative premiers, former Conservative ministers and even Conservative backbenchers all voice their opposition to a bill, this government is clearly going in the wrong direction.
This irresponsible government does not seem to realize that this whirlwind could turn into a hurricane that will cost it dearly in 2015.