Mr. Speaker, a nearly $80-billion deficit is most definitely enough. I also have real questions about where the government is spending its money because, clearly, it is not reaching the people it needs to.
I am a firm believer in investing in local infrastructure. In my rural communities, we have much aging infrastructure in need of renewal. Too often, though, as with everything else from the Liberal government, the Liberals decide to pick winners and losers. It is often the forgotten rural communities, which people like me and many other colleagues across and on this side of the aisle represent, that get so frustrated when the government decides to put crazy ideas as strings attached to any sort of funding.
At the end of the day, we need to let our local governments decide how best to spend the money. The federal government needs to get out of the way and let local communities decide.