Mr. Speaker, New Democrats have the best record for balancing budgets per year of government of any party in the House, from 1867 to today. We agree that crushing levels of debt and massive deficits are not healthy. That is why I call this budget a Conservative budget.
The Liberals cut revenue and have responded by cutting taxes. They cut the capital gains inclusion measure. They cut the digital services tax. They refuse to make our income tax system more progressive. Then, when there is a revenue problem, they respond by cutting services that Canadians rely upon. That is a classic small-c conservative approach to government.
The NDP believes we should be raising taxes progressively so we can have a robustly funded government, so Canadians can get the services they need and so we can have the ability to pay for them without going into a massive deficit.