Madam Speaker, I congratulate my colleague on his election and thank him for his speech.
When you watch the news, at least in Quebec, the situation is crystal clear. Health care is in crisis. At the height of summer, emergency rooms are overwhelmed. Psychiatric services cannot keep up. People who are homeless need services on the street.
My colleague talked about the government's fiscal and budgetary responsibilities. The government justified the election by citing the urgent need to properly budget. The first thing this government did was introduce a tax cut without presenting a budget and without saying where it would find the money. Here in Ottawa, the Liberals keep telling us that everything will continue to function, as though money were growing on trees, without even presenting a budget or, at the very least, an economic update.
Does this not prove that there is a fiscal imbalance and that, basically, this central government in Ottawa has far too much money for the responsibilities it has?