Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister told a room full of students that they are going to have to make sacrifices, but young Canadians have already sacrificed enough. They have already sacrificed the dream of home ownership. In 2015, the median age to buy a first home was only 31, and today, after 10 years of Liberal failure it is 38, with some provinces as high as 40. Young Canadians have sacrificed their careers, with youth unemployment at all-time highs, and nearly half of young Canadians have sacrificed by delaying starting a family or by not even having one at all.
The ancient Greeks told the story of the Titan Cronus eating his own children. I hope that is not why the Prime Minister said that we are Athens. Sacrificing our children's future is not good economic policy; it is wrong. Our parents and our grandparents worked hard to make a better life for us, but for the first time in our history, they are saying that this generation is not better off than the last. If that is not a testament to 10 years of Liberal failure, I do not know what is.