Mr. Speaker, here is who is blind in this conversation: a Minister of Finance who first claims that there would be an increase in infrastructure spending and then later has to admit,
there is less spending, [...] on [...] infrastructure projects [...].
That is $1.2 billion less, meaning less money for crumbling roads, less money for congested highways, less money for a starved public transit system. The Conservatives have lost their way and spend all of their time listening to their own rosy rhetoric instead of listening to Canadians.
When will the Conservatives drop the smoke and mirrors exercise and be honest with Canadians that $1.2 billion less spending on infrastructure would hurt them and hurt our fragile economy?