Madam Speaker, I am going to split my time with my friend and colleague from Fundy Royal.
We live in the best country in the world, and I do not even recognize it anymore. That is why we are here today. We talk about a country that is deeply broken at this juncture in the House as we speak about confidence in the Prime Minister, because of what is happening outside the House and because of what is happening in every city right across the country. Housing prices have doubled. The price of rent has doubled. The price of a mortgage payment has doubled after nine years, with photo-ops from the Prime Minister and his housing plan.
We talk about drugs, chaos and disorder in our streets to levels I have never seen before. That is why I say I do not recognize this country anymore. I do not recognize the city I grew up in. There are tent encampments, 1,800 in Ontario alone, that have popped up in places they had never been before. People are not just down on their luck; there were always tent encampments, but there are middle-class Canadians who now cannot afford a place to live.
This is not the country I grew up in. This is not the country my parents chose to make home. There was a deal in this country, and when my parents came to this country, when they chose to make Canada home, my father was an uncredentialled engineer. He ended up driving a taxi to put his wife through school and to make sure he could buy a home in a safe neighbourhood for his family. That is exactly what he did. He sent two kids to school and made sure that in one generation, we could go from the front seat of a taxi to the front row of Parliament Hill. That is the dream of this country. Today, people cannot do that.
When I say I do not recognize this country, I do not recognize it because nine out of 10 young Canadians do not believe they will ever own a home. The drugs, the chaos and the disorder in our streets are being pumped up by the Prime Minister, who is allowing people to languish right in front of us. He is not providing people with care and support but is drowning them in excessive taxes, making their lives unaffordable. He is feeding their own affliction of addiction with taxpayer-funded drugs, creating a street-level palliative care that nobody in this country ever dreamed of seeing in the streets.
It is not just in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. I have seen that for many years; I saw that 20 years ago. It is now in every single city, everywhere in the country. The Prime Minister has spent more than every other prime minister combined. The Prime Minister continues to hang his hat on quadrupling the carbon tax to go to 61¢ a litre. Not only that, but it is going to cost our economy $30 billion in lost GDP.
The situation is dire in this country. Canada has the lowest per capita GDP, not just now but also for the next 30 years. I know it is a fact that the Liberals do not admit, but they printed it in their own budget. We are squandering opportunity in this country. We have everything we need below our feet. We have the smart, industrious Canadian people who can build pipelines, who can work in mines and who can deliver the critical minerals we need for a government that says everybody is going to drive a Tesla by 2035.
We have everything, and we squander that opportunity. We have the smartest people in the world. We have enough food to feed ourselves for a generation. We have enough of what we need below our feet, like natural gas, liquefied natural gas, lithium and cobalt, to displace the dictator oil that is being sold to those on the other side of the world whose wars are killing our very own people.
We are an embarrassment on the world stage. We no longer sit at the table. We no longer even sit at the kids' table. They just do not even call us anymore.
The Prime Minister has lost moral clarity on issues that I thought were really clear in this country, with long-standing Canadian policy thrown out the window. It is sad to watch what has happened in this country, and that is exactly why we have put forward the motion today, a motion that is now supported by the NDP leader, who last Monday came out with a video, a huge production, saying that he was ripping up the agreement, that he and the Liberals were not friends anymore and that they were having a breakup.
It was a very public breakup until Thursday, when they got back together. They taped up the agreement. There was a little bit of weirdness when the NDP leader said, after voting 24 times to increase the carbon tax, that he was no longer for the carbon tax. I am not sure where that is today.
The NDP leader is constantly trying to pretend to hold the government to account. He says the agreement was ripped up, but then he put the agreement back together and is going to vote to keep the Prime Minister in power. He is going to vote against the workers he once pretended to represent in this place. He is going to work against the constituents in his riding and all the ridings of his members who want to see the Prime Minister go.
I am not the only one who hears it. I was out everywhere this summer, and the refrain is very similar. The refrain is even similar in Quebec. It is time for the Prime Minister to take a walk in the snow, take a walk in the sand, go surfing or play piano in the middle of a bar while drunk before another eminent funeral. That is, frankly, what the Prime Minister is doing right now, as he is not in this place but in New York City—