Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary's response was to repeat the same Liberal talking points.
For Liberals, it is all about spending announcements, but as I said earlier, a budget is more than just about a list of Liberal spending. A budget is supposed to explain how much Canadians are going to be spending, how much the Liberals are going to be spending, what taxes the Liberals are going to hike, how much they are planning to borrow and how much they will spend on interest payments.
By hiding from Canadians for six months, the Liberals only increased economic uncertainty, and in the meantime, they failed to get a trade deal, they failed to approve a single infrastructure development and they failed to give our troops the raise they promised. Canadians just cannot afford this record of failure.