Mr. Speaker, this budget does not tackle the real obstacles to growth. Instead of unlocking resource projects, building pipelines or enabling housing construction, the Liberals are busy picking winners and losers, leaving national projects that could create thousands of jobs stalled under mountains of red tape and regulation. Conservatives have a different vision, and that would be to get rid of some of the policies that are crippling our industries in this country, slash red tape and let Canadians build and prosper.
I wanted to talk for just a second or two about our veterans in this country, those who have paid the ultimate price for our country, those who have served and those who have sacrificed. Although the Liberals are running a $78-billion deficit and spending like it is going out of style, the one area they choose to cut deeply is the services and benefits that our veterans rely on. There are $4 billion in cuts to the services our veterans rely on, which they have earned through their service for this country.
Now there is this question mark hanging over all those benefits, because there are no clear answers, timelines or transparency on what those cuts are going to be, but it is creating a lot of stress and a lot of anxiety for those who have already sacrificed so much for this country. That is not leadership. That is not realistically meeting challenges. That is just cynical, sneaky and utterly shameful.
I want to contrast what we have seen in this budget with what Conservatives believe in. We believe in a Canada where the government serves the ambitions of the people and not the other way around. We have proposed solutions that would help to lift Canada out of the deep hole that we find ourselves in now, after ten years of Liberal government. We do this because Canada is one nation, and our fortunes, all political persuasions aside, are intertwined.
Conservatives simply want the best for Canadians, and after bearing witness to this decade of misguided, inept and too often corrupt Liberal government, we can clearly see that the Liberals are going to continue to repeat the mistakes of the past, those same mistakes that have caused Canada's economic future to go completely off the rails. We therefore offer alternatives to what has not worked.
We would be pleased for the government to take us up on our proposals. While they crib and water down some of our versions solutions, they never commit to the full and needed action. Our Conservative plan is clear. If we were to form government, we would end inflationary deficits and restore fiscal discipline. We would cut wasteful spending and bureaucracy instead of growing it. We would unlock resource projects to create jobs and generate revenue. We would lower taxes so Canadians could afford to eat and heat and house themselves. We would protect veterans with the benefits they earned and not claw them back.
That is how we would right the fiscal ship in Canada. That is how we would secure a future of opportunity, not through yet more crushing debt on our children and their grandchildren, and we certainly would not do it by introducing new layers of bureaucracy that set up delays and hurdles to the very solutions that Canada needs.
This budget is not a plan for prosperity; it is a plan for perpetual debt. It is a betrayal of promises, a burden on our kids and our grandkids, and a blueprint for bureaucratic bloat. Canadians know that they deserve better. They deserve a government that trusts them, that empowers them and that believes in their ability to build a stronger Canada. That is what the country needs, and that is what Conservatives offer, because a federal budget should not just be about graphs and pie charts; it should be a document with a serious plan to empower Canadians who want to afford a home, families who need relief from rising costs and veterans who deserve peace of mind that the promises their country made to them in return for their service will be kept by the government.
Canadians deserve better than the Liberal go-to of yet more debt and more bureaucracy, with the can of real solutions being kicked once again further and further down the road. That is why Conservatives will oppose this budget.