Mr. Speaker, I heard quite an exaggeration of reality from the member when he referred to the government and the overall debt as if the Conservatives knew how to manage the debt or cared about it. At the end of the day, what we will find is that they had a handsome surplus, and they converted that billion dollars of surplus into record billions of dollars of deficit. I thought that was the whopper of the year.
That said, does the member not recognize that most people in Canada would recognize that tariffs are another form of tax? Government revenues will be going up because the government chose to put a tariff on 1,300-plus items. Does he not recognize that as a form of tax? Would he at least offer some acknowledgement of that fact?