Mr. Speaker, it is always a good day to be Brookfield when the Liberals are in power. The Prime Minister just committed $500 million to the European Space Agency, creating good-paying jobs in none other than Europe. What is so significant about this? Brookfield actually owns 50% of the Harwell campus, where the agency is located. This is the same Brookfield that has avoided $6.5 billion in Canadian taxes through offshore havens.
Meanwhile, 2.2 million Canadians line up at food banks each month, the unemployment rate is at 6.9%, and the Prime Minister has tabled the most expensive budget in history since COVID. I am talking about a $78-billion deficit.
Conservatives have a solution to offer. It is this: Twelve companies' avoiding taxes just like Brookfield does would equal that $78 billion in deficit. As the 12 days of Christmas approach, would the Prime Minister maybe do us a favour and commit to those 12 companies' paying their fair share? On the first day of Christmas, he can start with Brookfield.