Mr. Speaker, that overheated and over-the-top rhetoric is cold comfort to homeowners who are facing hundreds of dollars per month of increased mortgage costs because of the Liberal government's decisions during the pandemic.
The Liberals doubled the national debt and increased spending by $600 billion over that time period, which led to higher mortgage interest costs at the same time that the Prime Minister was saying that interest rates would never go up, that they were so low and they would continue. Mortgage holders listened to the Prime Minister. They took out more mortgages and now they are facing higher mortgage rates, rates so punishing they will have a hard time paying.
When is the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister going to learn his lesson? Is he going to give homeowners a break on these mortgage rates?