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Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 1 November 25th, 2025
Mr. Speaker, the budget relies on record spending, record debt and record optimism but absolutely no record of competence.
Given that the government cannot keep a single promise on deficits or timelines, does my colleague think that Canadians should believe a single number in the budget?
Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 1 November 25th, 2025
Mr. Speaker, interest on the debt has now swallowed more money than most federal departments, even more than what we send to the provinces for health care.
How does the member look Canadians in the eye and justify shovelling tens of billions of dollars into bankers and bondholders instead of seniors waiting for a doctor, families crushed by housing costs, or communities desperate for safer streets?
Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 1 November 21st, 2025
Mr. Speaker, seniors opened the budget hoping for help, but they got nothing but higher costs, no meaningful tax relief, no help with housing, no fix for the crushing grocery bills, and empty promises about more doctors. After a lifetime of paying into this country, why are seniors once again paying the price for the government's overspending?
Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 1 November 21st, 2025
Mr. Speaker, the credit rating organization Fitch Ratings has warned again that the government consistently underestimates its deficits. If the government cannot even hit its own numbers, why should anyone believe the promises we have heard? Would you say this budget is based on math or marketing?
Finance November 19th, 2025
Mr. Speaker, this budget is all about the magical $1 trillion investment boom, as if private investors are lining up to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into Canada, but so far, the Prime Minister has circled the globe four times, literally, with basically almost nothing to show for it because businesses do not invest where the numbers do not add up and, right now, the numbers do not add up.
Fitch Ratings, one of the world's major financial watchdogs, just warned that in this budget, Canada's finances are heading in the wrong direction. It stated straight up in its report that the government has a pattern of promising one number and then spending way more every time. Even more shocking is that the report says that, when it comes to the rules, they mean absolutely nothing because the Liberals do not follow them anyway. Just last year, they broke all three targets they set for budget 2024. An investor has the entire globe to choose from. They are not going to choose the one country that spins a great story but never keeps its promises.
Finance November 19th, 2025
Mr. Speaker, most Canadians do not spend their evenings reading budget tables or credit reports, and frankly they should not have to. In a well-run country, those numbers are supposed to be boring. However, nothing about Canada's finances is boring right now, because the government has pushed us into territory where ordinary families are paying the price for extraordinary mismanagement.
Let us start with the simplest truth, one that is understood by any family, business or responsible adult: One cannot spend more than one earns forever. When a government does it, the consequences do not hit the politician who overspent; they hit Canadians. They show up in higher taxes, prices and interest rates, and they show up when one's grocery bill climbs but one's paycheque does not. Overspending may happen in Ottawa, but the fallout lands on Canadians' dinner tables, in their gas tanks and in their monthly budgets.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer has confirmed, to the Liberals' great irritation, the very thing they hoped no one would say out loud: The deficit is not shrinking like they said it would. It is doubling, not because of a recession or an emergency but because the government has chosen to grow spending by tens of billions of dollars. When government expands operating spending faster than the economy grows, deficits explode. This is not a conspiracy theory; it is arithmetic.
The government insists that all this spending is investment. That would be convenient if it were true, but a label does not change reality. An investment is something that pays back, and a cost is something paid for. Confusing the two does not make someone sophisticated; it makes them irresponsible. A family understands this intuitively. Buying a new tool for work is an investment, while buying a new flat-screen TV for a man cave is a cost. Both may be great, but only one produces a return.
The government has been calling almost everything it does an investment, even things that are clearly not. Museums and cultural centres may sound great, but they do not generate revenue for the country, pay down the debt or expand Canada's productivity. They are costs. There is nothing wrong with costs when we can afford them, but it is dangerous to pretend that costs will magically behave like investments.
The PBO found that the government inflated its so-called capital investments by $94 billion simply by renaming ordinary spending as assets. Other countries do not do that, and nor do accountants and economists. It is the kind of creative bookkeeping that hides problems rather than solving them.
Now we see the consequence. Fitch Ratings, the agency responsible for evaluating our financial health, has warned of a downgrade of Canada's credit rating. That is not a symbolic gesture; it is the financial world's saying out loud what many Canadians have already begun to feel, which is that we do not trust the government to manage debt. A downgrade will mean we pay more to borrow. When we owe as much as Canada does, that is not a small problem. It means that the interest on the debt grows faster and that more tax dollars go toward servicing yesterday's overspending instead of building tomorrow's opportunities.
Canadians deserve honesty. They deserve a government that understands the difference between spending and investing. They deserve policies rooted in reality, not wishful thinking. Above all, they deserve leadership that protects the next generation instead of sending them the bill for this one.
How do we quit maxing out the national credit card and pull Canada back from the edge before the next generation pays the price?
Bail and Sentencing Reform Act November 18th, 2025
Mr. Speaker, I know the Surrey Police Board recently sent a letter to the Minister of Public Safety, begging for meetings with the federal government.
Does my colleague think that if the Liberals had supported our jail, not bail motion, we could have been much further ahead on protecting citizens today?
Bail and Sentencing Reform Act November 18th, 2025
Mr. Speaker, I believe that, at this point in time, we have already done a few things that needed to be done, for instance, calling the Bishnoi gang what it was.
It is really important that we understand that, right now, people are facing gunfire and extortion in our neighbourhoods. Canadians need a bill that restores mandatory jail time for gun and sexual offences.
Bail and Sentencing Reform Act November 18th, 2025
Mr. Speaker, Canadians are tired of that spin. The government's bills, Bill C-75 and Bill C-5, turned our justice system into a revolving door of catch, release and repeat. Since then, violent crime is up 41%. In my own riding, I have sat across from small business owners who are terrified of extortion and families afraid to walk home at night. They are perfect examples of why the system does not work when we loosen it up.
Bail and Sentencing Reform Act November 18th, 2025
Mr. Speaker, what we do have is proof that mandatory minimums do work. Prior to their changing the laws, we did not have an extortion crisis or a crime crisis like we have now. The soft-on-crime framework is intact in this bill still. It keeps the culture of release. It offers no mandatory penalties for dangerous offenders, and it refuses to place public safety at the top of the law. What is missing is exactly what Canadians have been pleading for: firm consequences, clear standards and laws that favour the innocent over the violent. Until that happens, until they fix it, nothing will truly change.