Mr. Speaker, Canadians are facing another costly Liberal budget that will keep the cost of essentials like food and fuel high and eat away at the hard-earned savings of the people of Red Deer. Seniors on fixed incomes tell me they can barely eat, and young people say it is impossible to get ahead and start a family. Canadians cannot take more careless Liberal spending while jobs are lost and the Prime Minister jet-sets around the world with nothing to show for it.
Fitch Ratings says that since the Liberal government blows through its fiscal anchors, “federal finances run a high risk of further deterioration”. If the credit agency's scoring of the government was not bad enough, the non-partisan Parliamentary Budget Officer says, “With Budget 2025 the Government abandoned the previous fiscal anchor to reduce the federal debt-to-GDP ratio over the medium term...noting that ‘[t]his metric is key not only for fiscal sustainability,’”.
It is no wonder the Prime Minister—