Mr. Speaker, if these programs were working, if they were truly delivering, we would not be here tonight. We would not see families spending over half their income just to afford a place to live. We would not see housing starts projected to fall. We certainly would not see something even more troubling, which is that a growing number of the very people who invest in this country, who create jobs, take risks and build businesses, are leaving.
We are now facing a serious brain drain, with a troubling 40% of top earners looking elsewhere for opportunity, for a place where the cost of living is lower and the path forward feels more certain. When that happens, it does not just affect those individuals. It affects the families counting on those jobs and the communities depending on that investment. It affects all of us, because when investment leaves, when builders leave, when opportunity leaves, we all feel it. However, the Prime Minister goes around saying Canadians have never had it so good. How does he sleep at night?