Madam Speaker, there is a bit of a discrepancy in what the member just said. Back when we were in government, when I was part of the 2011-15 government, we had some pretty good economic things going on in this country. We had natural resources in my riding, natural gas was being developed, forestry was going and we had a softwood lumber agreement within the first 80 days.
Contrast that with the government, which had to spend taxpayer money, in the billions, to buy a battery plant. Instead of letting the market respond and build itself, the Liberals had to spend billions and billions of dollars of taxpayer money to build this thing. That is not the way this country started and it is not the way we are going to survive.
We are $1.4 trillion in debt, and it is getting worse under the government. The Liberals are throwing money at everything and hoping something works, but it is not—