Madam Speaker, my colleague is absolutely right. Out of all newspapers, the Toronto Star talked about how it is not just Canadians who know this is a cheap gimmick to buy votes; the Liberals themselves know about that. The MP for Hamilton East—Stoney Creek was brave enough to say that he was “threatened with ‘consequences’” for opposing this proposal for $250 cheques.
The reason it is a trick is that, at the same time as it is going to issue these cheques, the Liberal-NDP government will jack up the carbon tax once again. That is where this trick comes from. It is trying to buy votes, giving out these little lollipops so that people can ignore the fact that the Liberal-NDP government has doubled housing costs and raised the carbon tax scam that has made everything more expensive, which sent more than two million Canadians to food banks. All these things are just a major distraction and nothing more.