Canada Emergency Student Benefit Act  Mr. Speaker, the last time the Liberal Party talked about balancing budgets was when it guaranteed Canadians that the budget would balance itself in 2019. Since then, we have not heard hide nor hair of balanced budgets coming from that side of the House. It is quite worrying

The Economy   the reason why the budget must balance itself?

Government Priorities  Mr. Speaker, for the last four years the government has blown through its promise of a balanced budget. Liberals told Canadians the budget would balance itself while they threw huge parties and spent billions of dollars of taxpayer money. The party is over. The money is drying

Business of Supply  , during his 2015 campaign, about the importance of maintaining a balanced budget. He was on record saying that we needed to have a balanced budget. Indeed, as he famously said, “the budget will balance itself.” Of course, budgets do not balance themselves and we are left with a $30

Business of Supply   minutes or so giving my colleagues a sneak preview. The lead-off track on this album, which is one of my favourites, is called “the budget will balance itself”, written by the professor of peoplekind himself, the Prime Minister of Canada. As a follow-up, he hiked up taxes on low

Business of Supply   was that the budget would balance itself. My colleague has asked many times when the budget will balance itself and we have not heard an answer. This is where we are at today. The finance department itself, the government's own public servant, has said that there will be no balanced budget until

Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 2  . The reality of the situation is the Prime Minister said the budget will balance itself and yet Liberals cannot answer the basic question of when the budget will balance itself. These are fundamental promises made to people during election campaigns and yet Liberals come here and try

Finance   that in 2019 the budget would balance itself. He is off by just $20 billion on top of the taxes he raised on the middle class. The Prime Minister broke that promise. Which other promises will he break if he is re-elected?

Government Policies  Mr. Speaker, let us look back to 2015 and some of the promises that were made by the Prime Minister. There would be modest deficits and the budget would balance itself in 2019. That was false. The deficit is at $22 billion this year and mounting

Finance  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister famously promised that the budget would balance itself. He said that would happen just next year. We only have about 40 more sleeps until next year comes, and only one more sleep until the fall economic update, in which we are supposed to find out

Business of Supply   platform that the budget would be balanced in the year 2019. As the Prime Minister might have put it, “The budget will balance itself.” They have stopped talking about that promise and we are only about 42 sleeps until 2019 arrives. We are holding them to their promise that the budget

Extension of Sitting Hours   on. The Liberals worked very hard on mastering government by Instagram and Twitter. They worked hard on posturing and, unfortunately, on dividing Canadians. The Liberals worked hard on finding ways to run endless deficits, to the point where it would take decades for the budget to balance

Canada–Madagascar Tax Convention Implementation Act, 2018   correctly, 2019 was supposed to be the year the budget would balance itself, like so many babies on the campaign tour that the Prime Minister is now on. In 2015 he said, “I am looking straight at Canadians and being honest the way I always have. We said we are committed to balanced

Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has let down Canadians who voted for him in 2015. He promised the budget would balance itself. It has not. He promised huge investments in infrastructure. It turns out the money is stuck in Ottawa. He promised real action on climate change

Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada  Mr. Speaker, in 2015 the Liberal leader said that the budget would balance itself in four years, but instead he saddled Canadians with a massive deficit with nothing to show for it but tax hikes and job losses. He said he would be a feminist, but instead he used his power