Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, spending has gotten so bad that even Liberals are concerned. The finance minister promised Canadians that the deficit would not be a penny over $40 billion. She promised that it would be her fiscal guardrail. When someone goes over a guardrail, they do not stop. They go right over into the abyss.
The problem is so bad that even Liberals are commenting. “I think that we do need to show fiscal restraint”, said one of them. Another Liberal said this: “I think that if we state that we have a $40 billion guardrail, we stay within those numbers”.
To save our skin from the phantom finance minister, conflict of interest carbon tax Carney, the current finance minister has begun selling furniture in order to pay the rent. Liberals just sold three billion dollars' worth of Air Canada stock in the last 48 hours. Desperate Liberals will do anything to save their sinking ship.
The solution is simple. They should just stop. Stop increasing spending, stop increasing taxes, stop increasing inflation and call a carbon tax election.