Mr. Speaker, I did not hear the word “deficit”. My question is about the deficit. That should not be too hard to grasp.
Why did the Prime Minister force Canada's first female Minister of Finance to go over her $40-billion guardrail, dragging all Canadians down with her, while he and his friend Mark Carney stood by and watched her fall? What hypocrisy from a Prime Minister who said, just this week, “I want you to know that I am, and always will be, a proud feminist.”
Let me try this again. Does the Prime Minister have the courage to say the word “deficit”, and why is he forcing the finance minister to break her promise?