Jasraj Hallan
Calgary East, Alberta · Conservative · Canada
“This is not to mention that ours is the only country in the entire G20 to be in a recession. The Conservatives are wholeheartedly against shutting down this motion. I sit on the finance committee.”
“The Liberals are ideologically obsessed with the carbon tax. There's the clean fuel standard. We do not want to include the GST on top of that, which would have saved Canadians 25¢ per litre, or $1,200 for a family.”
“Mr. Speaker, before I begin, I want to inform you that I am splitting my time with my good friend from Saskatoon West , who brought me to his riding. I remember it was -40°C. He promised me he would show me an ice rink. I did not know he was talking about the roads in Saskatoon, not an actual ice rink.”
“Those are our jobs and factories or growth that could have happened here, but high Liberal taxes and regulation have driven them away. The Liberal Prime Minister has driven out, as a net loss, $20 billion of investment outside Canada. He is the guy who said he would fix everything.”
“The Liberals are adding another $68 billion in new spending. The PBO came out with a scathing report just two weeks ago, saying the Liberal government has a “less than 1 per cent” chance of meeting one of its own fiscal anchors, and debunking the other fiscal anchors the government had put in place.”
“The opposition's job, which Canadians sent us to this place to do, is to expose the endless, reckless spending by the Prime Minister and the Liberal government. It is not just us saying things are bad right now.”
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“He has to sit around the dinner table explaining to the kids how many things they cannot do over the summer and how many vacations they cannot have because he is more worried about how he is going to pay the bills, pay the mortgage or rent and put food on that table. It is the mom who just got laid off and was barely hanging on. It could be one of the majority of Canadians who are just $200 away from insolvency. It could be one of those 2.2 million Canadians who are waiting in a food bank line every single month, and that number might even go up now because of the job losses under the current government. This Prime Minister sold himself to be something different. He said he would not be like the previous guy. He is actually worse, so he is right in one sense. Not only is he spending more, if one can believe that.”
“In the entire G7, Canada, under this Prime Minister, is the worst when it comes to household debt. Let us dig into that a bit. What does this recession mean? It may be technical to the paid media, but in Canadian terms, it is the single mom who has to put groceries back because she cannot afford them or she has to buy in portions every week because the cost of living has skyrocketed under the Liberals. Including food costs and housing costs, everyday life is more expensive because of Liberal taxes and the failure of Liberal policies. It is the dad in Windsor who has lost his job. He is one of the 120,000 people who, in the first three months of this year under the Liberal government, lost their job.”
“Liberal pundits and their paid media keep saying this is just a technical recession. What is a technical recession? This full-blown Liberal recession meets the criteria with two consecutive quarters in a shrinking economy, but let us look at the time since this Prime Minister took power. In three out of the four quarters since he became Prime Minister, the economy has shrunk. Business investment has declined for five straight quarters and $20 billion of net investment has fled the country since he became Prime Minister. Just in the first three months of this year, 120,000 jobs are gone and 48,000 of those people are still looking for work. This Prime Minister delivered to Canada the second-worst unemployment rate in the entire G7. He is the worst when it comes to housing costs.”
“He said he was the guy who would get Canada back on track, and he said he was the man with the plan. However, it all turned out to be a sham at the end of the day because on Friday morning, Canadians got the devastating news of something that they have already been feeling in the last 10 years under the incompetent Liberal government: Canada is in a full-blown Liberal recession. In fact, this Liberal Prime Minister is the only leader in the entire G7 to drive the economy into a full-blown recession. All of the other G7 countries face the exact same external pressures and the exact same tariffs. Why is it that this Prime Minister, who was supposed to be the guy, plunged our economy into a recession? In fact, in the entire OECD, Canada is one of only two countries that are in a recession now.”
“moved: Motion That the House recognize that the Liberal Prime Minister has given Canada the: (i) only economy in recession in the G7, (ii) worst household debt in the G7, (iii) worst housing costs in the G7, (iv) second highest unemployment in the G7, a third higher than in the United States; accordingly, the House call on the Liberal Prime Minister to immediately present a plan to reverse all the economic policies of the Liberal government which have given Canada the G7's worst economy. He said: Mr. Speaker, I am going to be splitting my time with my great friend, and a decent hockey player, the member for Swift Current—Grasslands—Kindersley . Where is this Prime Minister ? He has been hiding, ducking and dodging since Friday morning. This is the guy who was supposed to be a master negotiator, the guy who would get a deal done.”
“Mr. Speaker, after 11 years of the incompetent Liberal government, there is nothing left to celebrate. The single mom who lost her job has nothing to celebrate. The 2.2 million Canadians going to a food bank have nothing to celebrate. In five straight quarters, business investment has declined. In three out of the last four quarters, the economy has shrunk. Twenty billion dollars of investment has fled to the U.S. because of the incompetent Prime Minister since he took power. Instead of trying to make America great again, why does he not tell us why Canada is the only G7 country in a recession today?”
“Mr. Speaker, the grand illusionist, the Liberal Prime Minister , is the only leader in the entire G7 who has driven their economy into a recession. Liberals and their paid media want Canadians to believe this full-blown Liberal recession is just a technical one, but there is nothing technical about the single mom who is putting back groceries who just lost her job. In fact, the Prime Minister lost 112,000 jobs in the first three months of this year and gave Canada the second-worst unemployment in the entire G7. If this truly is about global problems, why is Canada the only country in the entire G7 in a recession?”
“Mr. Speaker, I will have to disagree with the hon. member because we do have solutions. Conservatives have identified the problem. When the Liberals drove out $1 trillion of investment, they also got rid of the competition. Competition in a free market helps to drive costs down. We would eliminate, in their entirety, the industrial carbon tax, the clean fuel standard and any other taxes the Liberals implemented that make the cost of food go up.”
“Mr. Speaker, the translation was a bit behind, so I hope I heard the question right. If the question is about the excise tax, Conservatives, from day one, every single year, put forward motions at the finance committee and I have written letters to the finance minister saying there should be zero tax on these beverages and that should be frozen. At a time when restaurants are closing more than ever before because of high Liberal taxes and the high bureaucracy and regulatory burden the Liberal government has created, we need to do as much as we can, not just for the people producing the beverages but also for the restaurants and the knock-off effects after that. The Liberal government is obsessed with taxing businesses to death. It needs to reverse course so that restaurants are opening more than they are closing in this country.”
“First of all, Mr. Speaker, the member can tell his Prime Minister that steel is still used around the world. His Prime Minister does not believe anyone even uses steel. Second of all, he can tell his Prime Minister to remove the industrial carbon tax that gets put on that steel. The member, in particular, is completely out of touch. His government is completely out of touch. It is his government that has caused the pain to Canadians. Donald Trump did not impose a carbon tax on Canadians. Donald Trump is not the one who made Canada's permitting process the second-worst in the entire OECD. Donald Trump is not the one who is sending more and more Canadians to food banks. It is the out-of-touch Liberal government, and he should apologize for that.”
“With that same paycheque, they should be able to afford groceries and a house in a safe neighbourhood. That is what a Conservative government will do when we come back.”
“Under a Conservative government, we would get rid of these antidevelopment laws, including Bill C-69 , Bill C-48 and the industrial carbon tax, so we could get many different projects up and going, including LNG, oil and gas, pipelines, mines and dams. Whatever they are, not only would Canada be more self-reliant, but we would create good jobs and a good economy. That would not only serve Alberta; that would help the unity crisis that the out-of-touch Liberal government has created. In fact, it would help Canada, and it could help the world because we could have our low-carbon energy in places that need it the most around the world. We would also cap government spending and the wasteful spending of the Liberal government. We would bring back the Canada that we all knew, where hard work would earn Canadians a good paycheque with low taxes.”
“These are not stats that we heard about before; not until the Liberal government took over. Right now, Canadian households are the most indebted in the G7 because the cost of everything has gone up and, as I said, incomes have not moved at all. In fact, Canadian household debt has reached $2.6 trillion in Q4. For every dollar of disposable income that Canadians earn, they owe approximately $1.77. We are seeing delinquencies go up as well. In the first three months of the year, 1.4 million Canadians have missed a payment on a credit card or mortgage. Canadians are putting essentials, more and more, on their credit cards, and they are either putting everything else back on the shelves because they cannot afford it that week, or making really tough decisions they should not have to make. We need to turn that around.”
“They introduced the industrial carbon tax, which makes Canada less competitive, but also makes the cost of the goods that Canadians buy more expensive: food, fuel and any other goods. The Prime Minister says that no one uses steel. He is obviously out of touch. Canadians are using steel; it is in almost everything. When someone is building a home, there is steel in that home. It is also in cars and a lot of other goods. Steel is very much being used, yet the Liberals put an industrial carbon tax on it. That is the hidden tax that, at the end of the day, whoever is buying the goods has to pay. Canadians are paying it. It is bad, reckless Liberal policy. Canadians are stuck with the bill, which is why we see record food bank usage. When we look at Canadian households, one in four now are food-insecure.”
“Let us look at some of the projects that could have been built, but were not, under the government because of its radical eco ideology. Nothing is getting built. In fact, the Liberals have put up even more barriers so that nothing could be built in the last 11 years. Bill C-69, the “no new pipelines” bill, ensures nothing can be built in this country, whether it is a pipeline, mine or dam. In fact, when I talked to a mining company in B.C., they said that it takes about 18 years just to get a permit approved, and that is a maybe. What Canadian would want to invest in a project like a mine that may get built in 18 years? Then the Liberals put up Bill C-48 , the tanker ban, which does not let our product leave the west coast and go to the Asian markets.”
“There are food taxes, including the industrial carbon tax and the clean fuel standard. There are all these other things. Driving out investment also drove out competition, which would have helped bring down the cost of food and fuel. (1715) Whereas the out-of-touch Liberal government only took off 10¢ per litre, a third of the tax for a third of the year, Conservatives were calling for all fuel taxes to be removed for all of the year. That would have helped save families 25¢ per litre, or $1,200 for the whole year. That would have been real savings. Conservatives would also completely remove this carbon tax in the form of a clean fuel standard that the Liberals implemented. When we look at the economy, $1 trillion has left. Why did it leave?”
“In fact, there was the most growth in the deficit and the most spending that ever happened in Canadian history at that time. Canadians' bank accounts were wiped out and their cabinets were wiped out of food. That is why we now see 2.2 million Canadians going to food banks. The cost of housing has gone up. The cost of food has gone up. The cost of gas has gone up. All of that is because of Liberal taxes and Liberal policies. Canadians are working harder than ever now. In fact, who is using those food banks is becoming more and more concerning. It is now people in households of two income earners who are going into food bank lines, because their incomes are still the same, but everything else has gone up. The cost of housing has gone up because of inflation that the current government created. Rents skyrocketed under the Liberals.”
“These failed Liberal policies, these out-of-control deficits, changing laws to make it easier for repeat offenders to get out, and all the bad economic policies that the Liberals imposed on Canada, which drove out $1 trillion of Canadian investment to the U.S., ended up making Canada more unsafe and more unaffordable than ever before. It was this Liberal Prime Minister who was advising the then prime minister, Justin Trudeau, that the interest rates would be low for a long time, so people should go out and buy and spend as much as they want. After giving that advice, he gave other pieces of advice that completely made Canadians' lives miserable. That was to make sure that the Liberals spent and racked up deficits on Canadians.”
“Before the Liberal government, when we had a sound, responsible, strong Conservative government, the middle class was one of the strongest in the entire world. In fact, there used to be articles written back then saying that the American dream had moved to Canada. However, it did not take long for the Liberal government to come in and destroy all that great work, and then the Canadian dream went away. When I was growing up, it was not uncommon to have one household income to run a house. People could afford a house back then, too.”
“By every measure in every Canadian's life today, that is simply untrue. One just has to go to the grocery store. This Prime Minister admits he does not do his own groceries, so it does not really matter to him. When people go to the grocery store or fill up their gas tank, or just in everyday life, everything has gotten expensive. When we dig deep into why that has happened, we see that ever since the Liberals formed government, everything got worse. The economy got worse. Crime got worse in this country. This did not happen by accident or by some global forces, which the Liberal government always likes to blame. This happened because of changes that the Liberal government itself made.”
“Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the fine member for Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman . The costliest budget in Canadian history outside of COVID is back to haunt us once again. This is the biggest deficit outside of COVID that the government dropped on top of Canadians, and it is back. It is back to traumatize them once again. Canadians are visiting food banks at record numbers. Insolvencies are up and Canadians just cannot afford the cost of living. With the crisis that the current Liberal government created, Canadians are being reminded once again of how irresponsible the Liberal government is with Canada's finances, and the tough position that the Liberal government put Canadians in. In fact, in the current Liberal government, this out-of-touch Prime Minister says that affordability is the best it has been in a decade.”
“Mr. Chair, the minister can just clearly say that, no, he will not be involved. Obviously, it is very concerning that he cannot clearly tell Canadians that he will not be involved in the appointment of these board members. Can he stand on his feet and clearly tell Canadians that he will not be involved in appointing board members to this new debt fund?”
“Mr. Chair, the minister, under his government, created a green slush fund at one point where appointed board members gave around $59 million to their Liberal insider friends. This was a huge Liberal scandal that took place during their tenure. Is this another green slush fund?”
“Mr. Chair, in Norway, the wealth fund, through its own legislation, does not invest in projects inside of Norway, because it could be inflationary. Why is the minister doing the opposite with this debt fund?”
“Mr. Chair, over the last 10 years, we have seen the Liberal government create many other bureaucracies that have not met any targets and have run large deficits. Why would the minister create another debt fund that is filled with taxpayer money?”
“Madam Chair, does the minister agree with the Prime Minister that affordability is the best it has been in a decade, even though grocery prices are up by $1,000 this year and 2.2 million Canadians are going to a food bank?”
“Madam Chair, the minister's own housing agency says that 480,000 homes need to be built per year, over the next few years, to restore home affordability. The Liberals promised 500,000 homes per year. Their own housing agency says that home starts will decrease over the next few years, with a max of 280,000 homes per year. When will the Liberals build 500,000 homes per year?”
“Madam Chair, the minister acknowledges that removing the excise tax makes the cost of fuel and food go down. Would he agree that removing the clean fuel standard and the industrial carbon tax would also make the cost of food go down, yes or no?”
“Madam Chair, does the minister understand that Liberal taxes put onto the cost of fuel, including on the trucker, the farmer and the people who sell the food, end up getting paid by the person buying the food, yes or no?”
“Madam Chair, it was three years ago that the finance minister himself promised that. Does the minister understand that Liberal taxes, including the industrial carbon tax and the clean fuel standard, make the cost of food go up, yes or no?”
“Mr. Speaker, that was a great question. All of my colleague's advocacy is for her constituents, whether it is the issue of crime, which she raises all the time, or affordability. I fully agree with her. The thing is, this has been brought up many times. The Prime Minister is more concerned about making sure his banker and bondholder buddies are better off than how Canadians are doing. It does not concern these guys that, budget after budget, more money is going to bankers and bondholders than what goes to doctors, nurses and hospitals or what we collect in GST. This is the trend. It is either Brookfield, the bankers or the bondholders who get rewarded by the government. We will put an end to that under a Conservative government.”
“Mr. Speaker, I fully agree with the member. Under the government, it is not just the forestry sector but every sector that is suffering. Coast to coast, it affects forestry, which also means lumber, and the auto industry, as well as all the workers who go along with those jobs. In fact, under these guys, just in the first four months of this year, 111,000 full-time jobs have gone. They are not coming back. That is a record. That is the Liberal government's record. Because of its high taxes, its high burden when it comes to red tape and its bureaucracy, no one wants to stay here in Canada. Our industries and our workers end up suffering the most. Having 111,000 jobs leave Canada, which are probably not going to come back, is not a good look. We are going down with that trend because nothing has changed.”
“Mr. Speaker, is the member serious? Is he bragging about having the second-highest deficit in Canadian history outside of COVID? He asked about cuts. I will tell him what we would cut. We would cut the $90 billion that would go to the Alto boondoggle and the $742‑million Liberal gun grab. We would get rid of the $20 billion for Liberal-connected insider consultants. The government's ministers are so incompetent, it has to get advice from outside, Liberal-connected consultants. We would get rid of taxpayer-funded handouts to fake refugees. Of course, we would end the corporate welfare, which these Liberals are known for, that always rewards Liberal insiders instead of Canadians.”
“We need to make sure we start developing here at home so that we are strong here and strong abroad. We need to make sure we bring Canadians together, not tear them apart. This economic update would do none of that. It would keep people divided more than ever. It would make people poorer. It would make taxes go up. It would make costs go up. It would make the debt go up. That would do nothing for Canadians. We would do the exact opposite to bring this country together and give back the affordability and the safety that Canadians deserve in this country once again.”
“The Liberals have done the best job they could to separate people by every single demographic possible, whether by regions, industries or skin colour. That is what these Liberals are known for. They like to keep people divided so that they do not get together and they do not vote against them. However, the Conservatives will always have solutions. Regarding this sovereign wealth fund that the Liberals would create, wealth funds are created with wealth. They are created with assets. They are created with surpluses or with resource revenues. However, these guys decided to do it with debt. Who is going to be responsible for all that? Once again, it is going to be Canadian taxpayers. We need to end this ridiculousness. We need to get rid of these antidevelopment laws.”
“They could put savings away. However, the Liberals will never go far enough to help Canadians. They do just a bit and then they brag about it and say that people should be grateful for it. They could have done a lot more. While I am on this topic, it is important for us to address what else we could have done. The Liberals could have gotten rid of their “no new pipelines“ bill, Bill C-69 . They could have gotten rid of the tanker ban, Bill C-48 . They could have gotten rid of the industrial carbon tax. This not only would help get more built here, with jobs in the economy. It would actually help unity in this country. People are more divided than ever under these Liberals today. We want nothing more on this side than to have unity in this country once again.”
“It is nothing to brag about. There is no good news in there for Canadians. We proposed solutions. The finance minister recently said on TV that the Liberals have done enough for Canadians regarding affordability, and he is absolutely wrong. They could have done more. When these guys took 10¢ off in the excise tax on fuel, we said, “That is not far enough.” We proposed to take off 25¢. That would be taking off the GST and taking off the carbon tax, which the Liberals call the clean fuel standard. That would have saved Canadians 25¢ per litre, or $1,200 just this year. That would be real savings as opposed to the Liberals' cut, which is not even $100 of savings for an average family. Now, when summer is about to come, these savings would be realized. People could use that money. They could put their kids into sports.”
“TD Economics states that grocery prices are over 30% higher than in 2019. In 2025, 9.8 million people lived in food-insecure households and those households included 2.4 million children. This is the highest in Canadian history. This is what high Liberal taxes do. This is what out-of-control deficits do and what debt does to Canadians because they have to foot the bill. It gives them less because when the Liberals increase housing costs and when they increase the cost of everything else, they raise taxes. Now, an average family pays more in taxes than it does in food, shelter and clothing combined. Those are necessities and Canadians have to pay more taxes now because of the current Liberal government. There is no end in sight. As I said before, this update would give the second-highest deficit in Canadian history outside of COVID.”
“With high Liberal taxes and the high burden of red tape and bureaucracy, companies do not want to invest here, which is why $1 trillion of good Canadian investment, including jobs and everything else, went to the U.S. It is easier to invest there and there is a rate of return that people can see. There is profit there. (1800) This finance minister said he would bring down the cost of food. Absolutely nothing has gone down in cost. In fact, things have only gotten more and more expensive for Canadians. Canada's Food Price Report states that prices are expected to rise 4% to 6%. An average Canadian family of four will pay $17,000 for groceries this year, which is $1,000 more than they paid last year. This is what Liberal taxes do to Canadians and to the goods that we buy.”
“Everyone can remember back in the day when we had a responsible, disciplined Conservative government. Canadians could go to the grocery store and could have one income earner in the home. They could afford groceries and housing. They could get a week's worth of groceries for around $100 to $150, which today in the grocery store does not go very far. Not only have the Liberals driven out $1 trillion of investment, but they have made it impossible for anyone to invest in Canada, which is why we do not see much competition here. They have put up so much red tape and so many barriers that companies do not want to come here. We all know that in a good free market, competition is a good thing; it drives down the cost of goods.”
“First, it was the consumer carbon tax that they were obsessed with and now we have the industrial carbon tax and the other carbon tax, which they call the clean fuel standard. All these taxes have made life more and more expensive for Canadians. The finance minister said that he was going to haul in all the grocery store CEOs back in 2023 and that he was going to tell them what was on his mind and make sure that food prices came down by Thanksgiving 2023. We are heading toward Thanksgiving 2026, and food prices, taxes, costs, the debt and deficits have only gone up. Everything is put on the national credit card, which is why we call it the credit card budget. It is very costly to Canadians because they are the ones who have to foot the bill.”
“This is the same Prime Minister who stood up in the House and said that affordability is the best it has been in a decade. This is the same guy who raised the cost of living by implementing and making sure to keep the industrial carbon tax, which will go up. Under him, food price inflation keeps going up. The cost of food is impossible for people to afford today, which is what leads to 2.2 million Canadians going to a food bank in a single month. Instead of reducing the food bank lines, he increased them. Instead of reducing the cost of food, he increased it. Liberal taxes and Liberal deficits are what they do and what they have done over the last 11 years. There is no hope in sight that these are going to get any better because they are obsessed with the carbon tax.”
“The Prime Minister ran on saying that he would be more prudent and more disciplined when it comes to spending, but he took the gold medal with his first budget for the most expensive and biggest deficit outside of COVID in Canadian history. Then he dropped this update in the spring economic statement, and he gave himself a silver medal for the second-biggest deficit in Canadian history outside of COVID. Canadians' lives got worse. He said that he would bring back affordability and that he was going to be the guy who could do it. He also said that he could deal with President Donald Trump. Like every other Liberal before him, none of those promises were kept and they will never be kept. In fact, he is the same old costly, broken promises Liberal.”
“Mr. Speaker, before I start, I wanted to say that I am going to split my time with my good friend from Oxford , who is literally always behind my back or on my back, but he is a good guy. All jokes aside, I will begin my speech. We are here today to speak about one of the most expensive economic updates, outside of COVID, in Canadian history. It was more of an update, not a mini-budget, as we saw, and the Prime Minister ran over and over again on the promise that it would not be more of the same. He promised that he would be different from other Liberals or the ones before him, even though he was the one advising them. He was right. He is not the same; he is even worse. Ever since he became Prime Minister , Canadians' lives have gotten more expensive and more unsafe than they have ever been before.”
“Mr. Speaker, sending more students through trade schools without any jobs is creating certificates for unemployment. If the Liberals really want to invest in Canadians, the Liberal government can do one thing: just get out of the way. Let our natural resources get produced so we can create more jobs, create more boots on the ground, get shovels in the ground and get more projects built. That is what is going to help our youth, not more blocking of our resource projects. When will the Liberal government get out of the way and remove its anti-development laws so youth actually have a future in this country again?”
“Mr. Speaker, this Prime Minister is just another costly Liberal with nothing to show for his waste. It is more cost, more debt, more taxes, more on the national credit card and more of the same. The Liberals' trillion dollars of debt means less growth, fewer jobs and fewer opportunities for Canadians. Eighteen thousand jobs were just lost, unemployment rose to 6.9% and 111,000 full-time jobs are gone under the current Liberal government in just the last four months. How many more jobs will Canadians have to lose before the Liberal government stops its costly credit card budgeting?”
“We should scrap the Liberals' fuel taxes, stop inflationary spending and bring home affordable food for Canadian families. In Canada, feeding families should not be put on a line of credit.”
“Mr. Speaker, congratulations to the Liberals for turning Canada's economy into a “buy now, pay later” scheme. Canadians now finance their meals. Never before have we heard of Canadians buying pizza in four separate installments. The Liberals' only financial plan is to spend like crazy now and have Canadians pay forever. The Liberal Prime Minister doubled Trudeau's deficit and added even more to the national credit card; more costs and taxes are all on the heads of struggling families. No wonder Canada has the highest food inflation in the G7, with 2.2 million Canadians at a food bank in a single month and one in 10 Canadians living in poverty. This is what happens when Liberals tax the farmer, the trucker, the grocer and the restaurant, and then act shocked when the price of meals goes up.”
“Mr. Speaker, does this guy want a gold medal for having the second-highest deficit in the entire Canadian history outside of COVID? The Prime Minister skips on the bill, while Canadians are skipping meals. More than one in 10 Canadians are now living in poverty, and the pain is only going to get worse with these guys piling on more debt. The Liberals spend like there are no consequences. It is Canadians who have to pay for those consequences. When will the Prime Minister stop the reckless spending and stop the out-of-control deficits so Canadians can afford to live?”
“Mr. Speaker, this Liberal Prime Minister racks up the national credit card, because he knows Canadians have to foot the bill. Despite all the Liberal illusions, it is more costs, more taxes, more debt and more on the national credit card, all by the same old costly Liberals. Every time these guys say they are going to change, they end up racking up more on the national credit card, now leaving Canadians with $1-trillion debt bill over the lost Liberal decade. Does the Prime Minister know this is Canadians' money, not his, or does he just not care?”