Business of Supply   the Prime Minister says that the budget will balance itself. Many of them, though, believed him when he put his hand on his heart and promised that the budget would be balanced this year. He looked them straight in the eye and said there would be three modest deficits followed

Finance   question? In what year will the budget finally balance itself?

The Economy   to the most recent Liberal budget. The Prime Minister can spread falsehoods about the past, but what he should do is tell the truth about the future. He said that the budget would balance itself in 2019. He is breaking that promise. Therefore, when will we have a balanced budget?

Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, if you gave me a bit of time and allowed me to do so, we could go through this 854-page document together to try to find the date and year when the budget will balance itself. However, as I have already made my argument and since my silence was worth 1,000 words, I

Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 2  , at committee, or in public a fixed date of when the budget will be balanced. We know that the Department of Finance has produced numbers showing that 2045 is likely the date when the budget will balance itself. Hopefully, it will not come to that and we will find some way to balance

Agriculture committee   the finance minister tell you when the budget will balance itself?

Finance  , spend faster. They wanted the deficit to be even bigger. We managed to control the deficit, balance the budget and come out stronger than before. The question is this. He promised the budget would balance itself in 2019. When will the budget balance itself?

Finance  Mr. Speaker, basically, every fact he stated was false in that response, but that will not distract from the reality. He likes to talk about what Canadians chose in the last election. Well, Canadians were told that the budget would balance itself in 2019. In good faith

Finance   times the size he promised. Next year, when the budget was supposed to balance itself, it in fact will be bigger than it is right now. The question one more time is this. He promised the budget would balance itself. When?

Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 2  . I wonder what he thinks about that in particular. Also, why will his government not tell Canadians when the budget will balance itself?

Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 2   interesting to note what is not in the bill. What is not in the bill is any information about when the government believes the budget will balance itself. We have asked this question before and I wonder if the member has an answer to it. According to the government's plan, when

Finance   will be three times the size the Liberal platform promised. Next year it will be even bigger, and that was the year when the budget was supposed to balance itself. Is it not true that we have gone from the budget will balance itself to the budget will never balance itself at all?

Finance  Mr. Speaker, three and a half years ago, before he became Prime Minister, the Liberal leader posited a, shall we say, novel economic theory. He said, and I quote: as you know, the budget will balance itself. Of course, no one on earth bought into the Prime Minister's economic

November 20  , was founded, and so far, no E.T. Just as the search for alien life continues, so does the search for the year the budget will balance itself, after the Liberals voted down our Conservative motion to reveal this cosmic mystery in the fall economic statement. Mr. Speaker, the truth is out there.

Foreign Affairs  Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I believe if you seek it, you will find unanimous consent for the following: That the government provide the date upon which the budget will balance itself and that it provide this date tomorrow.