Madam Speaker, I have learned in life to compare myself to the people above me and ahead of me, not to the people behind me.
The government has given us the same story over and over. It talks about the comparison to whatever, such as the comparison to the debt in so many years. All these numbers do not help Canadians with what they deal with on a daily basis. Millions of Canadians are lining up at food banks, and that should be of huge concern to the government, which does not seem to be the case. Canadians cannot afford to buy a home. Canadians cannot afford to even continue to have the standard of living we have always had.
If those are not enough examples for the government to change course over how it does business, that means we are in deep trouble.