Mr. Speaker, I say good try to my friends from the Liberal Party.
The only thing Canadians can confidently expect from the Liberal government and these Liberal MPs, who just tried to silence me, is rising housing prices, now rising car prices, soaring debt, runaway overall inflation and absolutely zero economic leadership, just as we have seen for the last 10 years.
Canadians, and particularly the young Canadians I represent, are the ones who are going to be on the hook to pay for the government's reckless spending. Take the millions of dollars that were dished out to the Liberals' insiders at GC Strategies, for example. Tens of millions of dollars lined the pockets of their insider friends on the backs of young Canadian families who work hard to make an honest dollar and put healthy groceries on the table and gas in their vehicles to take their kids to hockey practice and piano lessons.
Just last week, the House voted to force the government to make sure the $64 million paid to GC Strategies was returned within 100 days. Only time will tell if the government will follow the will of Canadians and their democratically elected representatives or if it will side with its insider friends, who are surely sitting on a beach or a fancy yacht by now waiting for those Liberal MPs to join them.
A budget is Canada's best opportunity to review the decisions the Government of Canada is making. It is not optional for families and businesses in Brandon—Souris, and it should not be optional for the Liberal Prime Minister, his Liberal Minister of Finance or those Liberal MPs.
My question is, why are the finance minister and the Prime Minister completely ignoring the will of Canadians in the House of Commons and refusing to table a complete, transparent and accountable budget before the House rises on Friday?