Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 2   by the Prime Minister, who thinks the budget will balance itself, it comes as no surprise. During the election campaign, the Prime Minister said we needed to grow the economy from the heart outwards. We are very familiar with this concept and see it often. This mentality is all well

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 2   a budget. In the last year we heard that the budget would balance itself and the economy would grow from the heart out. Nothing could be further from the truth. The budget will not balance itself, and the economy is not going to grow from the heart out. It takes a lot of work and a lot

Finance  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my colleague's fine words, but I would have liked an answer from the Prime Minister. We understand why the Prime Minister does not answer questions about the deficit. Just two years ago, he said that the budget would balance itself. With that sort

The Budget   the CBC called it a “shell game”. The Prime Minister thinks that the budget will balance itself, but how can the Liberals have any credibility on the economy when they keep fudging the numbers?

Finance  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister once stated that the budget will balance itself. Well, he was wrong about that. After inheriting a budget surplus of $1 billion from the Conservative government and after he promised a $10 billion deficit, his self-balancing budget policy

Income Tax Act   revenues by $8.9 billion over six years. This may not be important to those who believe the budget will balance itself. However, for those of us who live in the real world, numbers matter. Based on Finance Canada's estimates, the new Liberal tax plan amounts to an average $6.34 a week

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1   is that the Liberal leader said that the budget would balance itself. Even with the tax increases he proposes, his plan leaves a $2 billion gap that can only be closed by increasing the debt and creating new taxes. The NDP does not offer any more hope. It continues to defend risky economic

The Budget   income. Contrary to what the leader of the Liberal Party believes, that “a budget will balance itself”, it takes work. It takes thoughtful, careful consideration and it takes a great deal of discipline to balance a budget. Ask families in Newmarket—Aurora about budgeting

Financial Statement of the Minister of Finance   is saying things about the economy that, for an economist, sound a bit bizarre. When he referred to the government budget last year, he said that there is no need to worry about the deficit, we should aim rather at stimulating the economy and the budget would balance itself

Taxation   for families and for seniors. As for the OAS, the member was on this side when that change was implemented, and she voted in favour of it. I think there is some confusion over there. Her Liberal leader thinks that the budget will balance itself. Canadians know better, and that is why

The Economy  Mr. Speaker, that is the type of question we hear from a party whose leader believes that the budget will balance itself. Canadians understand that budgets do not balance themselves. That is why they support the idea of improving the universal child care benefit, which gives

Employment   to lunch when he says that the budget will balance itself. We have balanced the budget here, and we are helping families and small businesses balance their budgets by lowering their tax burden. That is why we have 1.2 million net new jobs; 85% full-time, two-thirds in high-wage sectors

Business of Supply  , which is around 50%. In other words, we have by far the lowest debt of any of our competitors in our peer group. The member is from a party whose leader says that the budget will balance itself. They held a convention recently where the Liberals argued that the debt was too small

Employment   believes that the budget will balance itself, but that is not true, just as it is not true for families' budgets either. Given the opportunity, the Liberals would raise taxes, which would be harmful to families and employment.

Intergovernmental Affairs   and prosperity. Contrast that with the Liberals' approach, who hope that through hocus-pocus, the budget will balance itself. Instead, we know that they will hike taxes, run a deficit, and leave a burden of debt to our kids and our grandchildren.