Mr. Speaker, I listened carefully to the member's speech this afternoon, and I have to admit that for the most part, he did a good job, but parts of it were truly laughable.
He stated that all Canadians should get behind this budget. We are getting behind with this budget, but it is $30 billion behind that we are getting. What we are getting, right in the behind, is a $30-billion deficit. The member talked about hundreds of millions of dollars in tax cuts, but he has not talked about the $30-billion deficit, which he needs to pay attention to.
He talked about all the benefits, but what he has not talked about are all the extra taxes that will be added on, more taxes than we can shake a Liberal stick at: taxes on employment; taxes on medical benefits; taxes on small businesses, which the Liberals did not remove as they promised; and taxes on everything we buy, through the carbon tax.
How can the member opposite explain the kick-start to the economy his government promised, when it has put this on the backs of taxpayers and has created zero new full-time jobs?