Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is not worth the cost. The record of nine years of the NDP-Liberal government will be one of waste, corruption and no respect for Canadian taxpayer dollars. This legacy will include a $400-million slush fund that violated its own conflict of interest policy 186 times; a $223,000 in-flight catering bill for one trip for the Prime Minister.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer estimates the Liberal government will run a $46.8-billion deficit this year. The Liberals have missed their own spending target by $7 billion, meaning that they have blown away all of their fiscal anchors, leaving Canadians adrift among a fiscal nightmare.
Enough is enough. This runaway spending and corruption train must be stopped with a carbon tax election so that Canadians can elect a common-sense Conservative government that will fix the budget and end this inflationary spending.