Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, groceries, gas and home heating are getting more expensive, and a two-month tax trick is nothing but a lump of coal in Canadians' Christmas stockings.
As we await the fall economic statement, the finance minister has to worry about carbon tax Carney breathing down her neck as the Prime Minister tries his best to entice him to take over for her.
Liberal tensions on deficit spending are said to be causing this internal Christmas conflict, but common-sense Conservatives can offer some advice to help: just stop. Stop all planned tax hikes, especially the job-killing carbon tax hikes. Stop fuelling inflation by cutting wasteful spending and axing the sales tax on new homes. Stop adding debt by confirming that the deficit has not crashed through the $40-billion guardrail the finance minister promised.
Canadians need the reckless, wasteful and incompetent NDP-Liberal government to stop, so we can start a carbon tax election and bring the common-sense solutions Canadians need and deserve.