Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of the Liberal government, Canada has gone from having the world's most prosperous middle class to a country of empty bank accounts, empty refrigerators and unaffordable homes. That is why Conservatives demand an affordable budget, one that cuts the hidden taxes on food, like the industrial carbon tax, the plastics ban and the fuel regulations; one that cuts taxes on work, housing construction, investment and energy, like income taxes and the capital gains tax; and one that stops the inflation tax, the cruellest tax of all, by keeping the deficit under Justin Trudeau's staggering $42.7 billion and by reining in out-of-control spending on bureaucracy, outside consultants, false asylum claimants and especially corporate welfare.
The government has chased half a trillion investment dollars out of Canada and has taken Canada to the bottom of the G7 and the OECD in per capita growth. That is why Conservatives demand that the budget contain a complete reversal of the lost Liberal decade and puts Canadians first.