Mr. Speaker, it is true that all budgets have things in them that are worthy of support and other things that we do not like. In a 600-page document, this is going to be the case.
This gives me a chance to underscore a practice that has developed in Parliament: implementing omnibus bills, wherein all sorts of things that have nothing to do with a budget are tossed into the budget. Again, that is something the Liberals disliked in opposition, and they are doing it in government.
There are things in this budget New Democrats will support. That is a fair comment to make, but we have to examine a budget as a whole. When one takes a broad look at this budget, there is such lost opportunity. With the Trump administration upending Canada-U.S. relations, now is the time to be investing in our country, building more here, becoming more self-sufficient, getting more value from our raw resources and diversifying our trade relationships.
While the government is taking some steps in that regard, we lost a real opportunity in this budget to reset our Canadian economy in a way that puts us first and that would raise the living standard of every single Canadian. Instead—