Mr. Speaker, this budget is a booby-trapped blueprint that burdens the next generation with back-breaking bills and broken balances.
While the Prime Minister boasts and brags, young Canadians are being buried beneath a $78-billion deficit bombshell. That is not just a blunder; it is a brazen breach of trust. He blurted he would bring down spending, but instead his first budget ballooned by $90 billion, bankrupting blue-collar breadwinners and blaming everyone but himself.
Now interest payments on the national debt have ballooned beyond what we budget for health care transfers, and every household is being billed an extra $5,400 in bloated inflationary spending, which is a brutal blow to families already barely getting by.
Basic needs are being bumped for banker buddies and bloated bureaucracy, and what is the bottom line for our youth? It is bleak futures and broken dreams. Behind the buzzwords and back-patting, this budget is a bad bargain for Canadians. It is time to bring back balance, build responsibly and break free from this cycle of borrowing, bluffing and betrayal.