Mr. Speaker, a two-month temporary tax trick is all it is. For two months, the Liberals are going to do a little trick and save a bit of money. The problem they have is the comments they made, and that the finance minister made last year, that driving up the deficit is only going to make inflation worse.
What a surprise; we are in a cost of living crisis because the Liberals kept spending more and more money, driving inflation up higher and higher. We were very happy last year when they had seen the light, understood that having deficits would drive inflation higher and said they would not run a deficit more than $40 billion. Guess what; they are. They are massively overblowing their targets. The temporary two-month tax trick is going to cost billions of dollars, which is going to drive up inflationary pressures on Canadians when they can least afford it. Bah, humbug.