Mr. Speaker, this week, the Prime Minister introduced a spending bill. It was the main estimates for 2025-26. To be fair, his spending is not as bad as Justin Trudeau's; it is actually worse.
To start, the Prime Minister inherited an obese Liberal government. We know that. He promised to “spend less”. The first spending bill that he dropped in the House of Commons spends 8% more than Trudeau did in his last year in office. That is almost three times bigger than population and inflation combined.
We know that the Prime Minister is going to say that this new spending is an investment, but he is going to spend a record $26 billion on consultants. That is $1,400 per family, per year, and that is more than the tax cut he just talked about. He literally said, on Tuesday morning, that he would cap government spending, and he said it again today, at 2%. By the afternoon, he dropped a bill in the House of Commons to raise spending by 8%.
How is the Prime Minister going to reconcile what he said on Tuesday morning with what he did on Tuesday afternoon?