Warren Steinley
Regina—Lewvan, Saskatchewan · Conservative · Canada
“Mr. Speaker, I have just a quick question for my colleague from the NDP. The federal government says it is doing so well and its policies are just great, and its members are always patting themselves on the back. If the government is doing so well, why are so many Canadians struggling across the country?”
“Mr. Speaker, I am tabling a petition signed by members of my community on Commissionaires, which remains the largest employer of veterans in Canada. Commissionaires had an agreement with the federal government that gives Commissionaires the first right of refusal for security at federal buildings for government departments.”
“Mr. Speaker, the member for Yorkton—Melville has been a great colleague. She really embodies the three things we talk about as Conservatives: faith, family and freedom. She always asks about people's families.”
“Mr. Speaker, this member from northern Saskatchewan is the biggest embarrassment to come out of Saskatchewan since the Riders lost the Grey Cup for having too many men on the field. Let me make a list of what this guy has actually delivered. He cancelled the Snowbirds. He shuttered two agriculture research stations.”
“Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has said affordability is the best it has been in decades, but in reality, 38% of Canadians face food insecurity. One in five say all food in the home has been eaten and there is no money left to buy more. It is no wonder Food Banks Canada gave the Liberal government an F on food insecurity.”
“Then they decide to cut the Snowbirds and the agriculture research stations, and not fund their commitments to the RCMP heritage museum that they have promised time and again.”
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“I am going to read the motion: That, given that the finance minister promised in October 2023 that food prices would stabilize “soon” and that the Prime Minister stated in May 2025 that he would be judged by the prices at the grocery store, and that, (i) Canadians face the highest food inflation in the G7, (ii) food inflation is twice as high as it was when the Prime Minister took office, (iii) food inflation in Canada is twice as high as it is in the United States, (iv) Canadians made 2.2 million visits a month to food banks, (v) food bank use has more than doubled since the Liberals took power, the House call on the government to immediately introduce a Food Affordability Plan that: (a) removes the Liberals' hidden taxes on food, including, (i) the industrial carbon tax on farm equipment, fertilizer, and food processors, that drives up the costs of producing food and are passed onto consumers, (ii) the fuel standards tax, which is seven cents a litre— This is according to Environment Canada's own numbers.”
“I really want to start by reading out what the opposition motion is. I think that, a lot of times, some of our colleagues maybe just get their direction on how to vote from the whip's office over on the Liberal side, and they have not read the motion. I would like to see what they disagree with in the motion.”
“Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague from Foothills for his amazing speech. The start was something that hits home for me, being from Saskatchewan. We had the Humboldt bus crash a few years ago. Whenever there is a tragedy in the hockey community, it hits everyone pretty hard. A few years ago, I used to think about it from the perspective of being a hockey player myself, playing some hockey and travelling on buses. I now think about my kids being on those buses. From Regina—Lewvan and all across Saskatchewan, to the member for Foothills, to the families, to the Mustangs hockey team and all of their extended families, our hearts are with them. It is a very tough time. Our hearts go out to everyone involved: best wishes and God bless them. I will now transition, like my colleague did, to talking about our opposition motion.”
“Mr. Speaker, these are not my words; the Liberal finance minister said he would have grocery prices under control by Thanksgiving of 2023. Even my kids know that we should do what we say we are going to do. Why can the finance minister not figure this out? It is time for the Liberals to make sure Canadians can afford to put food on the table. Will the finance minister keep his word to Canadians so they can afford to feed their family?”
“Mr. Speaker, it took the minister a long time to get there. The finance minister promised three years ago that he would stabilize grocery prices by Thanksgiving of 2023. Since then, coffee has gone up 33%, beef has gone up 27% and lettuce has gone up 40%, and Canada is leading the G7 in food inflation. Now he is announcing another temporary rebate, which would not reduce the cost of a single food item. The rebate is an admission of the Liberals' failure in a policy. Will the finance minister keep his word and lower the price of groceries so Canadians can afford to put food on the table?”
“Mr. Speaker, I want to talk for a few minutes about what is actually causing some of the food price inflation. The outlook for net farm cash receipts went down 15% in 2025. What do farmers do if they have less cash? They produce less food. The economy just shrunk by 0.5% in the last quarter, meaning that we have less production in our country. If farmers are producing less and the economy is shrinking, what does my colleague think is going to happen with a cash influx to people, when there is going to be more cash chasing fewer goods?”
“Mr. Speaker, I just asked the member a question, and she did not have an answer. Food price inflation has been an issue for years and years. If this was so important, why was this not championed at the cabinet table? Why was this not in the budget that was presented last fall? They would have had that $3 billion in the already massive deficit that they delivered to Canadians. I would like the member to answer why this initiative was not in the budget, if it was so important to the Liberal Party of Canada.”
“Mr. Speaker, one thing I am trying to wrap my head around is that they are talking about how important Bill C-19 is and how important this initiative is, to give some money back to Canadians. That in itself should really be a signal to Canadians that the Liberals have failed when it comes to grocery price inflation. Canada has the highest food inflation in the G7 right now, and it has been that way for a while. If this was such an important initiative, why was it not in their fall budget? Why did they have this “come to Jesus” moment now, to put cheques in mailboxes for the election they want?”
“Mr. Speaker, we can tell by the member's speech just how important this bill is, because he talked about food insecurity for about two minutes and then spent about eight minutes on a far right wing-nut theory that he thinks he has a handle on. However, I do have a legitimate question for the member. When he brought forward this bill, I asked the finance minister how much GST Canadians pay on food. He said that Canadians do not pay GST on food. On a radio show in Saskatchewan, Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, the food professor, said that Canadians pay between $7 billion and $10 billion a year in GST on food. Does the finance minister not realize how much GST Canadians are paying on food?”
“Mr. Speaker, we have seen this before. We saw this in 2023 when the Liberals rolled out the grocery rebate. Today, we have the highest grocery inflation in the G7, so I am just wondering. Does the member expect that this will lower grocery prices, or will it be a one-time payment to Canadians, where they go to the grocery store, groceries are going to cost about $300 a trip and they get a $10 coupon? Does he believe this will lower the price of groceries for Canadians over the longer period?”
“Mr. Speaker, I am shocked by what I just heard. I asked the Minister of Finance how much money he has collected in GST on food. He said that Canadians do not pay GST on food. However, Sylvain Charlebois, the famous food professor, did an interview in Saskatchewan a couple of days ago about this very tax credit, and he said that Canadians are paying between $7 billion to $10 billion a year on food, and that includes granola bars, muffins and lots of the stuff kids take in their school lunches. How could it be that the finance minister of Canada does not know how much GST his government is collecting on food?”
“Mr. Speaker, it is ironic that today is Groundhog Day, because I have heard this speech before. It was in October 2023, when the minister promised to have groceries lowered by Thanksgiving 2023. He gave this exact same speech. It is recycled, and the Liberals are good at recycling speeches. This is about $3 billion in taxpayers' money. Sylvain Charlebois said the government collects $7 billion to $8 billion in GST on food. Did the Minister of Finance think about dropping GST on all food, so it could help all Canadians?”
“Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Portage—Lisgar just landed on something quite relevant, and maybe some of my Liberal colleagues missed it, which is the stifling of debate. He mentioned that, because of the Liberal censorship bill, we cannot share news articles online. The government has prorogued Parliament not once, but twice, in the past 10 years. Once it was to cover up the WE Charity scandal and another time it was to cover up the green slush fund scandal. I am a big fan of the idea that future behaviour is dictated by past behaviour. The government has done nothing but stifle debate over the last 10 years. Would my colleague agree with that?”
“Mr. Speaker, I listened to the speech by my colleague from Calgary Crowfoot, and I think that in one of his answers he really hit the nail on the head: He said that maybe it is because there are such weak Liberal chairs in the finance committee. I remember that when I was in government in Saskatchewan, I always thought it was the government's job to make sure the legislative agenda passed, not to slough it off and whine and complain that the opposition was not making it easy enough to get the job done. I would like the member to reflect a little more on not only the finance committee but perhaps also on the other committees where the weakness of the Liberal chair is allowing disorder and not making sure that the studies are taking place, as well as the fact that many chairs are not even calling meetings in the first place.”
“Madam Speaker, my colleague talked a lot about food affordability. Food affordability is a major issue across our home province of Saskatchewan, but nowhere more so than in northern Saskatchewan. In northern Saskatchewan, people pay the highest food prices in our province because it costs so much more to truck and transport the food there. We talked for years about how much the carbon tax affected food prices because of transportation, which the Liberals finally bent on, came around on and scrapped the consumer carbon tax. However, they continue with the industrial carbon tax, the carbon tax on food packaging, fertilizer and front-of-package labelling. I am wondering if the member has heard anything from the lone Liberal member in Saskatchewan about how he is combatting the higher food prices in northern Saskatchewan?”
“Can my colleague point to any investment of taxpayers' dollars that this government has spent that has led to success in terms of the average Canadian getting more employment?”
“Madam Speaker, my colleague from Calgary East and I are from neighbouring provinces, and I really appreciate his insight when it comes to the financial picture of our country. I would ask him this: It is interesting that the member for Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas is clutching his pearls and saying that we are saying such terrible things, but then he did not say anything that we had said that was not correct. They talk about misinformation, yet they never say what we have said that was not correct, and I do think this next election is going to be about a lot of things. One is corporate welfare. This government gave Stellantis $15 billion, and then Stellantis announced a deal with the United States for $13 billion. This government gave Algoma Steel $500 million, and we lost 1,000 jobs.”
“Madam Speaker, I listened intently to the 10-minute speech of my colleague from P.E.I., and he did not mention one new initiative. A whole new budget was brought in, but not one new initiative was mentioned. He mentioned child care, the lunch program, OAS and dental care, but not one new program. I find it interesting that the government is creating a $78.5-billion deficit, which will be about $10 billion higher, but the member did not mention any new spending. Why we question the government's ability to budget is that the National Post this past weekend said that the PM's “plan to reduce civil service will cost $1.5 billion to cut payroll by just $82 million.” They are spending $1.5 billion to cut payroll by $82 million. How does that make sense?”
“It was not the opposition's job to get bills passed in the legislature in Saskatchewan, so the member is really in trouble for not fulfilling any of his duties and may therefore lose his job. The louder he gets, we know the more trouble he is going to be in, because he is a complete failure at being a House leader.”
“Mr. Speaker, I have been here for most of the day, and I find the line of questioning coming from the government member for Winnipeg North very interesting. He stopped talking about Bill C-15 , because he does not have any more questions to ask and we put forward the argument that it really would not help everyday Canadians. Now I think he is worried about an upcoming cabinet shuffle and that he may lose his job, because the government is not getting the job done. The government is not getting its legislation passed. I was in government in Saskatchewan, and I always thought it was incumbent on the government to get its own legislation passed and get the stuff implemented that it wanted to.”
“Mr. Speaker, in the budget, the Liberals talked about investment in the future. There is an operating budget and an investment budget. The PBO, whom the Liberals do not like, said that $90 billion of the investment budget should actually be in the operating budget. The deficit is actually skyrocketing past $78 billion to $90 billion. The PBO said that. What does my colleague think about the misinformation coming from the Liberals about what investment actually looks like, when that $90 billion should be in the operating budget and not in the investment budget?”
“Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague and friend for showcasing the giving spirit in Saskatoon and how, if the government got out of the way, lots of private companies and benefactors would fill the void and help the less fortunate in our society. With all the money the Liberal government is spending and giving to their friends, insiders, Brookfield, bondholders and bankers, does the member believe it cut $98 million from the RCMP in this budget go-round?”
“Mr. Speaker, the government talks about all the things it thinks it is doing in the budget, and it asks where the waste is. In a budget with a more than $78-billion deficit, what could possibly be wasteful? I was doing some research. The government budgeted between $4 million and $8 million to build a rink at Rideau Hall. I have great news: I built a rink for my kids in my backyard this weekend. I could save the government $8 million. I will grab a couple of buddies from Saskatchewan, we will get a box of fill and we will build a rink at Rideau Hall for under $100. Does the member think the government could find any other waste in the budget?”
“Can the member please tell me if there is anything in the budget that might make life more affordable for the average hard-working Canadian, or is it all about bankers and bondholders?”
“Madam Speaker, it is a pleasure to join the debate. My colleague's speech was wonderful. Listening to the member for Winnipeg North , it is as if he lives in an opposite world. He will twist and turn and try to make comparisons, but these are the simple facts. Food bank usage in our country is higher than it has ever been; there are more people in Canada using the food banks than ever. With regard to the quality of life index, we were number five in the world, and we are now number 27. How can the member keep telling Canadians how good they have it, when time after time there are job losses, with 1,000 more job losses at Algoma Steel? The budget is a Brookfield budget that benefits bondholders and bankers, not everyday hard-working Canadians.”
“Mr. Speaker, that is a tough but fair question. I guess the proof is in the pudding. He is spending more money than Justin Trudeau. I want to add one thing about what they are spending money on. I want to talk about Regina—Lewvan. It is the home of the RCMP depot, and I hope people realize the government is cutting $98 million from the RCMP budget. It is asking our national police service to do more with less funding, and then the Liberals talk about adding 1,000 new RCMP members, which is going to cost $120 million, but they are giving them zero dollars for that. They are cutting the RCMP budget by $98 million, and then asking them to find $120 million over the next four years to train 1,000 more officers. It is shameful, and they should reimplement the budget the RCMP needs to keep Canadians safe.”
“Mr. Speaker, we have been against the carbon tax for years, and now the Liberals have flip-flopped on it and decided it was politically unpopular. It was still their flagship policy for 10 years, and they flip-flopped like that because they will do and say anything to get elected. When it comes to the carbon tax and making sure we have affordability in this country, they should scrap the industrial carbon tax. They should scrap the food packaging tax. They should scrap the clean fuel standards, carbon tax 2.0, to make food affordable again.”
“Mr. Speaker, if it is going to happen, sure, but this is a Liberal kind of trick that they play. They say it is going to happen. There was an MOU signed. It is going to happen. They signed it on July 21. An hon. member: Oh, oh! Warren Steinley: Did you say that you will send me a press release, because I believe Liberal press releases? Mr. Speaker, if it is going to happen, I would be happy to congratulate them on breaking down some interprovincial trade barriers. I want Canada to succeed. I believe in Canada as much, or more, than every one of those Liberals, but they think they can wrap themselves in the flag when it is convenient. They say we will be Canada strong. Canada has never been in a weaker position, and it is because of your terrible fiscal policies.”
“Debt payments are going to go from $55 billion to $75 billion, which is exponentially higher than health transfers. It is a horrendous indictment and shows the failure of the Liberal government.”
“Can members believe that? I never thought the next generation would be worse off than our generation. Something we should all aspire to is handing over a country where a person can do better than their parents. Every parent wants their kids to do better than they have done. Under these 10 years with the Liberal government at the helm, people have lost faith in that. Youth do not think they can buy a home. Eight out of 10 youth do not think they are ever going to buy a home in this country. I never thought Canada would be in this kind of shape, where Canadians are working hard and trying to get ahead, and the government layers tax upon tax upon tax on them and makes life unaffordable. This budget does the same thing. There is going to be $361 billion of debt added to this country over the next five years.”
“My son was here with me a couple weeks ago, and he always asks, “Dad, why don't you stand up and say what you actually feel?” I say, “Son, there are some parliamentary language rules, and I am making sure I am following the rules,” but I am very passionate about this, because I believe there is nothing more that Canadian parents want than the ability to support their family and feed their own kids. If we took a poll, there would not be a family who said that they think the government should be the one that feeds their kids lunch. Why can we not live in a country and work toward a country where parents have that ability? That is what I want for the next generation. There is a poll that shows that only 8% of Canadians, and members should hear this, think the next generation is going to be better off. People are losing faith in our country.”
“The Liberals have run the government so poorly that parents cannot afford lunches and to feed their kids. Why is that? It is because they continue to layer tax upon tax on parents. Hard-working parents, after they get off work, instead of going to the grocery store now go to the food bank. That is what this country has come to after 10 years of their terrible fiscal policies and their inability to create more economic activity through the private sector. I look at my kids, who are eight, 10 and 12 years old.”
“Every time the Liberals say they are going to spend money so Canadians do not have to, Canadians need to realize they are taking that money out of their pockets. It snowed here yesterday, and it was a little chilly in Ottawa. It was so cold I actually saw the member for Winnipeg North with his hands in his own pockets for a change. He continues to nickel-and-dime Canadians to death. The Liberals bring out their flagship program, the school lunch program. I have a big issue with it, because it actually is not feeding the number of kids they say it is, first of all, since 90% of kids do not get fed by this program. There are five million kids in this country, and the program is going to feed 400,000, which it has not done yet. I also have a problem that the flagship program is giving food stamps to kids.”
“Imagine if, back in 2015, we had been able to see our country in 10 years' time and seen that in 2025 there would be the highest number of people in Canada's history who were using a food bank. Is that where we thought we would end up after 10 years of a Liberal government? The Liberals said they cared. I remember Justin Trudeau, with his hand over his heart, saying that the government was going to take on debt so Canadians did not have to. This was on national television, and he had this Care Bear stare that I remember very vividly. Who do the Liberals think pays government debt? There is no magic money tree out behind the PMO, although sometimes I wish there was. The only way the government gets rid of debt is by taxing and taking more money from Canadians who earn a paycheque, or from companies' earnings, each and every day.”
“We have the shipping ban off the port of Vancouver, which I think had a fair bit to do with Nutrien making the decision to invest in Washington and not Vancouver. (1720) We have companies that will continue to look at Canada and see it as an unattractive place to invest, and that is because of government regulation and policy. When we hear Liberals talking about the investment the government will make, this is because they have scared away all the private investment and there is an atmosphere of uncertainty around investment in this country. They are going to take more and more taxpayers' dollars and throw them at projects, because they cannot convince private companies to invest in Canada anymore. That is a sad state of affairs, but that is where we are.”
“The members across could not answer why they would invest $1 billion in the U.S. instead of in Canada right now, when they are headquartered in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It is because they do not think we have a dependable infrastructure or transportation system anymore. We lost $1 billion of investment, and the Liberals just shrugged. That was a Canadian company. Why is it that TC Energy is investing in pipelines in America but not Canada? Where is that private investment going? It is going south. Why is that? It is because they do not believe in the regulations. We have Bill C-69 , which the Supreme Court said was unconstitutional. The Liberals have still not done anything about it.”
“It is rising, and so is inflation. It will continue to rise. He promised to spend less. He is spending $90 billion more than his campaign budget committed to. That actually adds $5,400 more in inflationary spending for each household. He promised more investment. The budget reveals that investment is collapsing. I always find it amazing that the Liberals say they are going to invest more, that they will take taxpayers' dollars and decide which businesses should get it or not. There is always a follow-up question to that. Why do they need to invest more? What happened to private sector investment in this country? Why is the private sector not investing more in Canada? I see a little quizzical look from one of my Liberal colleagues. Nutrien decided to invest $1 billion in Washington to add more capacity, instead of in Vancouver.”
“I have actually asked a couple of ministers, a couple of times, to break down where they are at and what they have done to make interprovincial trade easier in this country. I have talked to a few of my counterparts in different provinces. There has been no progress made on that. The Liberals said they were going to unleash the economy, another promise by the Prime Minister . I have not seen or heard of any change to interprovincial trade barriers since the Prime Minister made that commitment. I do want to go back to the fact that the Prime Minister promised to get spending under control. As I said, I am going to use his own standards: It is a promise made but a promise not kept. The Prime Minister promised to keep the deficit to $62 billion. It is at $78 billion, almost $80 billion. He promised to lower the debt-to-GDP ratio.”
“I want the member for Winnipeg North to know that this will be my most factual speech. Everything I say is a commitment that the Prime Minister or one of his ministers made. I was here in 2023, when the current finance minister promised grocery prices would go down by Thanksgiving. That was in 2023. The member can shake his head, but that is true. I just have an MNP report that says grocery prices this year, in 2025, are up $800 per family. That is $800 per family, according to the MNP report. Once again, we have a promise made but a promise not kept. Another promise that was made, and I have heard nothing about this and there is nothing in the budget about it, is that they were going to break down interprovincial trade barriers. It was a promise made by this Prime Minister .”
“Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to join and add my comments to what is a disastrous budget 2025. The member for Winnipeg North may be surprised by this, but I find it hard to believe that the Prime Minister can outspend even Justin Trudeau. Mr. Trudeau added more debt to our country than all other prime ministers combined. Then this new guy walks in and is like, “Hold my beer. If you think that is spending, I will double Trudeau's promises.” The Liberals got elected on the fact that this new Liberal Prime Minister, kind of the same as the old Liberal prime minister, was a financial wizard. He was going to control spending. He was going to deal with Donald Trump. He was the master negotiator who was going to get a deal done by July 21. I remember; everyone remembers that he said that.”
“Mr. Speaker, the member talked about youth unemployment as though it just happened out of nowhere. This summer, youth unemployment was the highest it has been in our country in 30 or 40 years. I am wondering what policies the government brought forward that added to youth unemployment, because it did not just happen by accident. Why are so many young people in this country finding it so hard to find employment if everything is going so well?”
“Mr. Speaker, along that same vein of spending so much money and looking so bad, the member for Winnipeg North likes to compare records. I would like to compare records. In 2015, the budget had a $1.9-billion surplus. In 2025, the budget has an almost $80-billion deficit. In 2015, we were $650 billion in debt as a country. In 2025, we are $1.3 trillion in debt, and we have never seen a government that could spend money faster. My colleague gave some wonderful examples of food bank line-ups. How can the government spend so much when Canadians get so little out of it?”
“With respect to the Liberals' continued obsession over slogans and the carbon tax, we know that they were wrong, because they repealed the consumer carbon tax after they fought tooth and nail for eight years, saying that it was the best thing for the environment. They then flip-flopped just to get re-elected, because they realized how unpopular it was. Now I know how regular Canadians feel. I sat here and talked about real problems, and the parliamentary secretary just read a speech and did not listen to a single word I said. It makes these adjournment debates almost as disappointing as question period.”
“Mr. Speaker, I am very happy that the parliamentary secretary can sit there and read a speech that was written for her by someone behind the curtain, but I did not say any of that stuff. Actually, my speech did not even mention the carbon tax. The unhealthy obsession over the carbon tax coming from that side is a bit weird. I talked about out-of-control spending, food inflation and families finding it harder each and every year to make ends meet because there is much more month at the end of their paycheque, and it just does not go far enough, and how the Liberals could actually help families.”
“It was actually so cold outside today that I saw Liberals with their hands in their own pockets. That almost never happens. After 10 years of failed Liberal policies, and this is the data, food insecurity is increasing time and time again, and food lines at the food bank continue to grow; more people are using the food bank than ever before. The Liberal plan has failed miserably. My question, to whoever is going to answer on the other side, is this: When will the Liberals get it together, stop their out-of-control spending and get budgets under control so families can afford to put food on their own table?”
“I have been in the House long enough to remember when the current Minister of Finance was minister of trade and announced that grocery prices would go down by Thanksgiving, but that was Thanksgiving 2023, and grocery prices have continued to increase. Then the Liberals tried to make food prices a global phenomenon, saying that they were going up this fast everywhere. However, we have heard time after time that food price increases in Canada are outpacing those in the United States by 48%, so this is a made-in-Canada problem, and it started with the out-of-control and reckless spending by the Liberal government. Meet the new guy, the same as the old guy. Justin Trudeau never met a tax dollar he did not want to spend, and the Prime Minister is blowing past even the deficits of Justin Trudeau. It would make him blush.”
“Mr. Speaker, I am happy to be here this evening to maybe get a little bit better answer to a question I asked in October. I talked about the fact that 86,000 jobs were lost in October and that 1,000 jobs were lost in Calgary, and about how that actually leads to more households' being food-insecure. Since that time, the Canadian food sentiment index report came out last week. It said that 80.6% of Canadians say food is their top expense pressure, that 28% of Canadians needed to use savings or borrow money to buy food and that 25.5% of Canadians are experiencing food insecurity. The average family of four will spend $800 more on groceries this year than last year. That is an indictment of the 10 years of failed Liberal policies we have had in this country.”
“Mr. Speaker, I am proud to be the member of Parliament that represents the RCMP depot where all RCMP officers are trained. One thing this budget does, as the member said she wanted to have an honest look at it, is it cuts $98 million from the RCMP budget. How does she expect Canadians to feel safer on the streets when the Liberals are cutting $98 million from the RCMP budget? Also, they are asking the RCMP to train 1,000 more recruits by 2030, which will cost $120 million. Where are they supposed to find that money when they have already cut the RCMP budget by $98 million?”
“Mr. Speaker, the Liberals think Canadians should be satisfied with begging for scraps from their table. The Prime Minister said he would be a master negotiator. He said he would get a deal with Trump done by July 21. He failed. Now he says, “Who cares?” and that there is no “burning issue”. Well, Conservatives care, and so do the members of USW 5890. They are the hard-working men at Interpro Pipe and Steel in Regina, and they care about their jobs. How can the Prime Minister look them in the eye and say the jobs that feed their family are not a burning issue?”
“Mr. Speaker, the minister should be tired of having a reckless record when it comes to the CRA. He should fix the CRA before he fixes anything else. The agency that gives the government its credit score says that since the Liberal government frequently ignores its fiscal anchors, the federal finances face a high risk of further deterioration. I have a simple question for the Prime Minister : When will he take his job seriously and get Canada's finances back on track so that Canadians can afford a life?”