Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my friend's flair for the dramatic, and he said something that was really on point, which does not happen a lot in his speeches. He said the Harper government balanced three budgets and the Justin Trudeau government balanced zero budgets. That is the truth. I would agree with him.
Harper went through a recession, a financial meltdown, in 2008. Trudeau went through COVID. Harper's government came back with a balanced budget after a few years. The Prime Minister is not on pace to balancing the budget ever given his unsustainable spending. The Trudeau government added more debt to the country than all other prime ministers combined. That is not rhetoric; that is fact.