Mr. Speaker, this Minister of Finance is great. He is great at ushering in an era of skyrocketing household debt, great at ballooning our debt by over $120 billion, great at allowing credit card and mortgage debt to go through the roof, and great at building the largest deficit in the history of Canada. To top off that legacy of shame, he is now meddling in the private affairs of individual companies, pressuring them to increase mortgage rates.
Even the Conservative Minister of State for Small Business understands that this is wrong. He gave his Minister of Finance a tongue-lashing yesterday, saying, “I would not dictate to businesses what prices to decide”. We agree, and Canadians deserve better.
Thankfully for the member for Beauce and for all Canadians, there is the NDP. We will fight reckless Conservative interference and in 2015 we will form an NDP government and finally bring sound public administration to Ottawa.