Madam Speaker, I want to talk about the Canadian dream. This is what we want for everyone in our country.
We want people to be able to find a good job, and that job should earn us enough so that we can find a home that meets our needs and that meets the needs of our family. We want to make sure that people have enough so that they can have a fridge full of groceries, and they do not worry when they go to the grocery store about what they need, because they can get everything that they need for their family. They can save up enough money, maybe for a trip, maybe for a little vacation or for the treats that their family or their loved ones need.
However, that is not what it feels like right now. People are losing hope.
They are seeing the super rich make more money than ever before, while they keep on falling behind. Canadians are doing everything right, but they cannot get ahead. It is because governments, and the current government specifically, have failed to do the most important job of government: to fight for people, not the billionaires and not the CEOs.
In this difficult time, it is clear that the Liberal government has let people down. Rents have doubled. Home prices have doubled. Grocery prices are out of control. Big corporations, though, on the other hand, have seen their profits massively increase. Their CEOs are getting huge bonuses. Shareholders are getting huge dividends.
The Prime Minister says to leave the economy up to the bankers. Instead of choosing people, he chooses the wealthiest CEOs, corporations and billionaires. He has shown again and again that he is too weak to stand up to corporate greed. While they are raking in cash, people are drowning in bills.
What have the Conservatives done throughout this? They want to pour fuel on the fire of corporate greed. Their plan is to make life even less affordable. The leader of the Conservatives wants to cut, cut deeply and hurt people. He wants to cut from the working class to give to his CEO friends.
He wants to cut health care so that it is even harder to find a family doctor, so that wait-lists and wait times are even longer. He wants to cut pharma care so that people do not get access to free birth control or free diabetes medication. He wants to cut pensions so that seniors who are already struggling to get by are in even more difficult times. He wants to cut EI so that workers who cannot find a job or cannot get back to work have even more difficulty getting back on their feet. He wants to cut dental care because he is saying that seniors and kids do not deserve to get their teeth looked after. That is what he wants to do.
There is a cost to the Conservatives and people need to know this cost. He wants to cut child care. If he does, that could cost families more than $8,000 a year. He wants to cut the Canada child benefit. That would hurt families with another $600 a month. There are costs to the Conservatives, and that hurts. He wants to cut from Canadians to give to big businesses. That is what he has shown.
He will let us fall further and further behind to help the very richest get even further ahead. Last week, he proved who he truly is. The Conservative Party proved who it is truly in it for. Conservatives had no problem, when they were in government, with bringing in a $60-billion—