Mr. Speaker, as the parliamentary secretary well knows, the so-called promised tax cut of the NDP-Liberal government is falling apart at the seams. It is one of the major issues that the former finance minister resigned her post over. She understood that the gimmicks and the performance politics of the Prime Minister and his government were in no way a responsible decision to make. She cited in her letter exactly why this tax cut comes at an irresponsible time, when we expect to see tariffs imposed on Canadians and on the Canadian economy, and how creating fiscal restrictions and being irresponsible with the budget to the tune of billions would cost the government and the country its position to negotiate with the United States and others.
Nobody believes the parliamentary secretary and the NDP-Liberals when it comes to their performance over the last nine years. The evidence is obvious in the lives of every Canadian who is hurt and broken by what has happened in the irresponsible administration of the government.
In decision after decision, the government has placed partisanship ahead of the country and placed the Prime Minister's personal interests over the people of Canada. Never have we seen the current government make a decision for the interests of the country ahead of its own partisan ambitions. Today, especially, we see the price of that manifest in its finance minister's resignation.