Mr. Speaker, as I stated on June 9 in this chamber, Canadians from Field, B.C. in the Rockies to the ranch lands of Kamloops tell me that family budgets are being destroyed by Liberal inflationary spending. The Prime Minister said that he wants to be held accountable for what Canadians pay at the grocery store. It is more than what people are paying at the grocery store that he will be held accountable for. It is how many people are lining up at food banks because they cannot afford to go to a grocery store. How many cannot afford a home because it just does not fit in their budget? Grocery prices driven up by the Liberals' inflationary spending, along with doubled housing costs, make it impossible for families and small businesses to meet their budgets, budgets they must meet or face bankruptcy.
When I look at what is happening in the 45th Parliament, I can only see how much it resembles the last Parliament, one frozen by Liberal corruption and the refusal to answer to the will of the majority of the House, with a government that allowed hundreds of millions of dollars to go out the door to its Liberal friends with no accountability.
The similarities continued this week as the majority of the House passed a Conservative motion demanding that the Liberals get back the $64 million they handed to GC Strategies, the ArriveCAN scam people, for doing nothing. Not one Liberal voted for accountability as 165 Liberals voted against getting Canadians their money back from the ArriveCAN scam. The Liberals have been directed by the House to, within 100 days, get the taxpayers' money back. It is our money, my money and the money of every taxpayer in Canada. The government owes that to Canadians, but it will not do it, because it is the same group of ministers who are just fine with the corruption as long as it benefits them and their rich friends.
The Prime Minister hired back the same old crowd of ministers who helped Justin Trudeau blow through budgets that did not balance themselves. Now he refuses to even present a budget to explain how he plans to spend half a trillion in taxpayer dollars.
When I asked on June 9 if the Liberal government would table a budget and reverse its inflationary policies so Canadians can afford to put food on the table, I was asking on behalf of the good people of Kamloops—Shuswap—Central Rockies, who deserve an honest and respectful answer. They want to know how their taxpayer dollars are going to be spent because they are the ones footing the bill. They work hard for their paycheques, only to have them taken away by a government that refuses to account for how taxpayer money is being spent.
Why will the Prime Minister not come clean and admit that he does not really have a plan, other than spending other people's money so he and his rich friends can get richer on the backs of hard-working Canadians?