Mr. Speaker, I hear the words “investment, investment, investment” over and over. What I do not hear is the more honest framing of “spending, spending, spending”. If we want to get private sector investment in this country, and certainly in my region, we need the government to abandon the industrial carbon tax and to reduce costly and burdensome regulations. We need the government to admit that it has been killing jobs over the last 10 years by suffocating companies.
We do not attract private sector investment by ballooning and bloating the size of government, which is precisely what this budget is going to do. The Liberals can try to use whatever tricky words they would like, but at the end of the day, this is a budget that is going to create $320 billion more debt over the next five years, which future generations of Canadians will be forced to bear.
Why is there no path to genuinely balancing the budget, and why are we not able to see what Canadians are going to be getting for this money that is mortgaging the future generations?