Mr. Speaker, a tiny two-month tax trick is not going to help the more than two million Canadians lined up at food banks every month, nor will pennies off Pepsi help Canadians who are going to pay $800 more for groceries in 2025. This Prime Minister is forcing his outgoing finance minister to take the fall for the effects of his inflationary spending that is pushing right past his $40-billion deficit guardrail and over the cliff. Will the Prime Minister admit that it is in fact his inflationary spending that is the cause of this massive deficit?
In the House of Commons on December 13th, 2024. See this statement in context.