Business of Supply   divides its time between sitting on the fence and hiding in the weeds, smoking weed. Our economic action plan has five pillars that have helped create more than one million new jobs since the recession. The Liberal plan has one line: the budget will balance itself. How

Business of Supply   that our budget will balance itself, and he is still working on a definition of just who is in the middle class. Let us come back to today's debate. I respect the intent of the hon. member's motion. Bills amending the Canada Elections Act and the Parliament of Canada Act

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, the member is saying he will do $100 billion. Yes, and the budget will balance itself, his leader said.

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1   right across the country. It is worth talking about a little bit. Unlike the Liberal leader, who said that the budget would balance itself, we do not believe that, and we put in place a plan back in 2006 that started the process of working toward a balanced budget. That is when we

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1  . They know that it did not happen by accident. In fact, the flippant quip by the Liberal leader that the budget will balance itself is a tragic example of his misunderstanding of economics. Unfortunately, it is in keeping with the naive and laughable statements that he is becoming well

Business of the House   the thousands of billions number that he is also fond of. I am also confident that he will not choose as the subject of debate the matter of eliminating the budget deficit. After all, he says the budget will balance itself.

The Economy  . The Liberal leader has threatened dangerous new deficit spending that would take Canada down the same roads as Detroit and Greece. I am not surprised that someone who believes that “the budget will balance itself” would also believe that we can spend our way to prosperity.

Employment   and this Minister of Finance understand budgets and finance, unlike the opposition, which thinks with pixie dust and well wishes the budget will balance itself.

Ethics   leader who thinks that the budget simply balances itself. We will make sure that never happens and that Canadians can have a good, competent government for a very long time.

Infrastructure  Mr. Speaker, what is out of touch is the Liberal leader, who thinks that a budget will balance itself. His statement betrays his lack of understanding of the economy and his disconnection from the realities of the Canadian middle class. The reality is that this government

The Budget   of the House. The opposition parties want to recklessly tax and spend, and they think that the budget will balance itself. That statement itself tells us what kind of economic leadership we would get from the Liberals: vacuous. Canadians deserve strong financial leadership, and we have

Taxation   believes in not worrying about the budget, saying that the budget will balance itself. He is the last one this country needs to listen to when it comes to taxes.

The Budget  , there was one very interesting and telling exchange. During an interview, the leader of the Liberal Party refused to answer a question as to whether or not he would run budget deficits. His answer was, “The commitment needs to be a commitment to grow the economy and the budget will balance

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, Canada has one of the safest and healthiest food systems in the world, and our government has a strong record of action on this file. As we study budget 2014, we can readily recognize the absurdity of the Liberal leader's statement that the budget will balance

Veterans Affairs   of the Liberal Party would ask me about someone else's comments on the budget when yesterday he said that we should not balancing the budget in this country because, according to him, “...the budget will balance itself”. I will let him explain that.