Mr. Speaker, I would like to welcome the Prime Minister to his first official question period. This is where democracy lives, and this is where we provide rigorous scrutiny of every word he says and every dollar he spends on behalf of Canadians.
Let us talk about those words and dollars. During the election campaign, it was “elbows up”, as he put retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. Secretly, he then dropped those tariffs to, effectively, zero. He did not stop there; he told Canadians that the government would collect $20 billion in revenue from those tariffs and use it to cost his platform. Now that those tariffs are going to bring in zero dollars, I have two quick questions.
Why was the Prime Minister not honest with Canadians during the election, and how is he going to make up the shortfall? Is he going to borrow it, print it or tax it?