Grant Jackson
Brandon—Souris, Manitoba · Conservative · Canada
“Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I think it was very audible, the government whip shouting across that a member was a “liar” in the House. You previously ruled on a heckle that called another member a “liar”, and the member was asked to retract that statement. I would ask, Mr.”
“Mr. Speaker, I wonder if the minister minds addressing whether any of this money would be available for municipalities that are quite small. Despite their not being perhaps as flashy as big announcements in the major cities across Canada, these municipalities, in previous Liberal iterations of bloated federal government programs and fundi…”
“Mr. Speaker, I find it very unfortunate that the member for Winnipeg North would accuse this member of the things that he has put on the record today. I think that is a pretty disturbing accusation to put on the record.”
“Mr. Speaker, I do not think we will be trusting the minister's word on what a .22 is, given that he did not know what an RPAL is either. Manitoba's premier, Wab Kinew, recently said that the Prime Minister is requiring LNG to be shipped through the port of Churchill by 2030 as a requirement for federal support of the port of Churchill plu…”
“Mr. Speaker, it always amazes me that the theme for the government should be that someday they will get it done, and that member is certainly no exception to that rule. He is in charge of planning for the government, in terms of the House schedule, as is the House leader he serves. That member has been elected in this House since 2010.”
“Mr. Speaker, despite leading Canada into a recession, the Prime Minister continues living in luxury, racking up $1 million in inflight catering alone. Meanwhile, more and more Manitoba families are struggling just to put food on the table.”
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“This was an absolutely unacceptable act to voters, to my constituents back at home, and I heard that at door after door. In fact, those efforts created barriers, particularly for some of the most vulnerable in our society, or seniors and individuals with disabilities, which my constituents found exceptionally distasteful. Canadians need to be able to trust in our system, but they are right to question why loopholes in the Canada Elections Act allow groups to intentionally disrupt the voter process in the first place.”
“As is commonly said, imitation is the greatest or sincerest form of flattery, and Conservatives are very proud to be making real change from the opposition benches to ensure better government and better democracy in this country. As the member of Parliament for Brandon—Souris, I have heard the concerns of my constituents. Both during and following last year's federal election, I heard loud and clear that the actions of the so-called longest ballot committee significantly impacted the ability of many Canadians to cast their ballot. Any action that is deliberately confusing or attempts to discourage voters and that creates unnecessary burdens for the staff at Elections Canada, who in many cases come out of retirement just to work on our election days, does not serve the best interests of our democratic system.”
“They deserve the ability to trust that their will is reflected in the outcome of our elections in every constituency across this country, regardless of the result of each of those votes. That brings me to the two most important points I would like to focus on today. First, there is the work done by Conservatives in mobilizing action to defend our democracy against the longest ballot committee movement. Second, there are the gaps that currently exist in protection from foreign interference, which have been allowed to persist over the last 11 years under the Liberal government. While it is great to see the Liberals begin to take these concerns seriously, it is unfortunate that they have chosen to wait so long to bring any meaningful change forward. However, that is nothing new.”
“Many of its provisions, which I think our shadow minister has already mentioned, are certainly welcome, and the bill deserves to be studied further at the committee stage of the process. I believe most of our colleagues here today would agree with that. They would also agree that trust in our democracy remains of the utmost importance to Canadians. As parliamentarians, we all have a duty to uphold democracy and ensure the interests of Canadians are represented in that process. Democratic trust binds all actors within our federal elections, and that trust is earned. Some of the most important actors in our democratic processes are the voters, who cast their ballots in each election.”
“Mr. Speaker, I am certainly proud to rise on behalf of my constituents to speak to Bill C-25 . I would like to mention at the beginning that I will be sharing my time with my esteemed colleague from Richmond—Arthabaska . Today we are debating an important piece of legislation that is especially relevant to the democratic process that Canadians take part in during each federal election, which results in our having the true privilege and honour to serve in this place and represent them. There are several aspects to the bill, and while my colleagues across party lines have spoken to different mechanisms within the legislation, I will be focusing on two that are of particular importance to me. Before I do that, I want to be clear: This bill does have merits.”
“Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for that excellent speech. We were just at the procedure and House affairs committee where we were discussing civic resilience, a study that is currently under way there. In the theme of Bill C-25 and the study that is ongoing at PROC about civic resilience, what does it mean to only have one set of voices and one set of ideas being pushed? What kind of message does that send to Canadians who might disagree? What kind of health does that promote within our Canadian society?”
“Mr. Speaker, quite often in question period, Liberal responses to questions provide someone with an out-of-body experience that befuddles the mind. Today was exceptional in that we had Liberal members, exactly as the member said, feigning ignorance as to how these taxes got to be at the level they are at. We then had Liberal members admitting that they support pipelines now, when they campaigned against them for 10 years. Other Liberal members, from Quebec, were saying that they were thrilled to get rid of the carbon tax, even though they supported it and campaigned for it for 10 years.”
“Mr. Speaker, I have to apologize. I may be a bit confused. I think the member referenced carbon sequestration. I did not reference that in my speech. What I would like to make clear to the member is that our position with regard to the policy right now is that we need relief, fast, for Canadian consumers, and this is the fastest way to deliver relief to families that are struggling to put gas in the car and to put food on the table. I would always be more in favour of policies that reduce income taxes, for example, but families, right now, in this crisis, cannot afford to wait for a tax cut on income taxes now that they do not get to see the benefits of until they file their taxes in 2027. That is why we are putting this policy forward now. We need real relief, fast, and this policy does it.”
“If he wants to come to western Canada and talk about canola and the path forward for it, he is welcome to do that, and we will deliver to him a very clear message on the path forward.”
“Mr. Speaker, while I have great respect for the member and he is welcome to come and visit some of the farmers in western Manitoba any time, I have not found one yet who supports Liberal tax policy with respect to the carbon tax or any other of their massive initiatives that drive up the price of fuel. What I have heard from the farmers is that they need new markets for their canola to sell abroad. There are lots of hungry people in the world. We need additional crushing capacity here in the country to create good jobs, and then we need to find new markets for that. The Liberals attempted to get a deal with China. I am not really sure where that has landed. Did the member get to go? I cannot remember whether he or the ag minister was on that trip. It did not really seem all that focused on agriculture.”
“Our party, knowing that our cause is just and the solution is true, puts this motion forward in good faith today, urging the Liberals to fully accept our ideas on their merits, asking them to review it quickly and praying that they will implement it wholly and swiftly. Canadians are counting on it.”
“This does not prove that the Liberals are doing the right thing for Canadians; it proves that they are stumbling behind our allies. Real leadership means taking concrete action before it is too late. Yes, the Liberals do have a history of poaching our policies, which they have clearly attempted to do today, but unfortunately removing just one of the federal taxes we put forward in this motion will not achieve the results that Canadians desperately need. Most of the hard-working people of my riding cannot hop on a train or a bus. They cannot leave the car in the driveway and walk or bike to work or wherever they need to go. That is the reality for most of the people I represent. Regardless of why they need to drive, Canadians who do drive should not be punished by their government for doing so.”
“It would remove the fuel excise tax and the GST on gasoline and diesel until the end of 2026, not just until September, as the Liberals have suggested, and our motion goes further, calling for the removal of the fuel standard and the industrial carbon tax permanently. This is not radical policy. Around the world, allied countries have already beaten Canada to the punch. Australia, Austria, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Italy, each of these countries has taken the initiative to cut fuel prices or give relief at the gas pumps. Their leaders understand the challenges that their people face and have responded in the only way that provides real relief at the pump. Meanwhile, Canada's Prime Minister claimed the Liberals are still just “looking” into it. Then, just this morning, he paused a single one of those taxes for a few months.”
“When families have already squeezed their budgets for groceries, it is unconscionable that the Liberals are going to take more money from Canadians' pockets and funnel it into pet projects that benefit Liberal insiders and elites. That money should be left in Canadians' pockets so that they can continue to put gas in the tank and food on the table. Over the last two weeks, Conservatives have presented a plan to do that. When families struggle, Conservatives stand up for Canadians. As His Majesty's loyal opposition, Conservatives have put forward legislation in this motion that would benefit the Canadians whose hardships have been for too long ignored by the Liberals, and that is why I am proud to support this Conservative motion today.”
“As Canadians struggle with affordability, the Liberals are actually profiting from higher prices of oil, according to many former Liberal economic advisers. That is right. Canadians may be shocked to learn that every $10 increase in the price of a barrel of oil translates into roughly $2 billion in increased revenue for the federal government. Let us do the math. Oil prices have risen by $45 to $50 in the last few weeks, and if prices stay at their current levels, the Liberal government could collect an extra $9 billion to $10 billion this year. Meanwhile, the revenue from the taxes I mentioned earlier will bring in $5 billion in federal revenue. These are dollars taken directly from the pockets of Canadians, who are forced to pay these high prices at the pumps. Farmers in Manitoba are just about to head to the fields for 2026 planting.”
“Unfortunately, they were too short-sighted and stood in the way of those major nation-building infrastructure projects that were under way under the Conservatives, and now Canadians are literally paying the price for it. The Prime Minister claims the Liberals will temporarily pause the fuel excise tax for just a few months, but we have not seen any action yet. If real progress had been made in expanding domestic capacity over the last 11 years, Canadians would have been far better shielded from the fuel prices we now face, but unfortunately the Liberals failed to heed calls from the Conservatives, and now we are where we are. These are all facts that the Liberals have refused to admit are costing Canadians their livelihoods.”
“Combined, these four taxes add 25¢ on each litre of gasoline and 21¢ on each litre of diesel fuel that Canadians buy. Each of these taxes adds up quickly at the gas station, but with higher prices already in existence before these price shocks have come into effect, Canadians feel even more pressure. All that is in addition to the Liberals' destructive record with Canada's oil and gas sector, the Manitoba component of which I am proud to represent. (1605) The Liberals talk about resilience to world factors in global pricing. If they had allowed pipelines to be built and if we had been refining more of our oil in this country 10 years ago, Canada would have been more resilient to a global conflict that affects the world's price of oil and gas.”
“Today, four Liberal taxes on Canadian fuel are responsible for the massive gap between Canada's prices and our closest allies' prices. Regardless of an announcement this morning, the Liberal government currently imposes, first, its fuel excise tax, which costs Canadians 10¢ on every litre of gas they buy. Second is the carbon tax, which the government has simply renamed its fuel standard and which adds another seven cents a litre. Third is the goods and services tax, GST, that applies to gas and diesel, which adds eight more cents to each litre of fuel. Finally, number four, is the industrial carbon tax, which will rise to $170 per tonne, with projections showing a loss of 50,000 jobs and our economy shrinking by 1.3% as a result.”
“It is hard to believe, but despite already paying some of the highest prices in the G7 for the food they eat, which many of my constituents grow, and despite paying some of the highest fuel prices they have seen in years, Canadians are seeing prices rising even higher. Earlier this month, the ongoing war in Iran forced Canadians to watch the price of gas skyrocket. Canadians would be forgiven for thinking that these out-of-control prices are hitting our neighbours just the same, as the Liberals often say it is a global crisis. However, that is not the reality. In fact on April 1, Americans were paying 20% less for a litre of gas than we were here in Canada. How does the Liberal government explain that when challenges arise, Canadians seem to be the worst off in the G7? The answer is simple: The Liberals cannot, but Conservatives can.”
“It is no secret that for years Canadians have struggled with an affordability crisis caused by the Liberal government. Unfortunately, after 11 years of Liberals, we see that their costly deficits and out-of-control spending continue to grow. Liberals are happy to spend the hard-earned paycheques of Canadian taxpayers in the name of bureaucratic red tape, consultants, giant trains that do not touch the prairie provinces, and failed projects that achieve nothing for the people of my region. After a decade of these Liberal taxes, constituents in western Manitoba are looking for some much-needed relief.”
“Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague from Ontario for sharing his time with me. I sincerely appreciate it, and I know that the constituents of Brandon—Souris will as well. It is always an honour to rise on behalf of the constituents in Brandon—Souris, the wheat city in western Manitoba. The important motion before us today is simple, but if implemented fully and properly, it would serve as a very effective way to combat an issue that affects so many Canadians. Gas prices in Manitoba are some of the highest we have seen in years. It is all I heard about at the doors and at community halls these past few weeks through Easter. In a country as large as Canada, driving is often a necessity and not a choice, especially in the rural regions I represent.”
“Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my excellent colleague from Vaughan—Woodbridge for that great speech, which was interrupted by a bunch of drivel during question period about how the Liberals have reinvented affordability for the umpteenth time since they caused this affordability crisis when they took office 11 years ago. I wonder if my colleague can comment a bit more on how shallow the depth of their announcement earlier today is and what real relief for Canadian families might look like.”
“By pausing only the fuel excise tax and only until September, the Liberals have acknowledged that cutting taxes is the answer, but their half-measure plan would save far less than our Conservative plan would. Will the Liberals admit their mistake this afternoon and implement our full plan today to promote real relief for Canadian families?”
“Mr. Speaker, Canadian gas prices have soared and the time for action is now. Unsurprisingly, the Liberals have only just stumbled out of the gate. Conservatives have presented a plan with real solutions for Canadians amidst an affordability crisis that Liberals created. Here is the solution: Cut four costly Liberal gas taxes. Our plan would halt the fuel excise tax and the GST until the end of 2026 and permanently remove the fuel standards tax and the industrial carbon tax. These taxes cost Canadians an extra 25¢ a litre on gas and 21¢ a litre on diesel. Cutting taxes would keep that money in Canadians' pockets. This morning, the Liberals attempted to poach this plan but, true to form, they did not even copy and paste correctly.”
“Our fellow G7 members deal with the same global factors we do, yet these problems are worse here in Canada than they are anywhere else in the world. Canadians are done with these Liberals passing the buck. It is time for them to step up and deliver the results they promised or get out of the way so that Conservatives can deliver it for them.”
“Mr. Speaker, we are three months into the new year and Canadians are seeing more of the same from the Liberal government. The Prime Minister has made promise after promise to improve Canada's finances but, as the months go by, the government has failed to deliver a single positive economic outcome. The Liberals promised the best G7 economy, but instead, Canada sits at last place. In fact, Canada's economy is the only shrinking economy in the G7. It also has the highest household debt and the highest food inflation. The Liberals promised more jobs, but in the first two months of 2026 alone, Canada has lost more than 100,000 jobs. They want to chalk these problems up to global factors, but if they want someone to blame, they should look in the mirror.”
“Mr. Speaker, food prices have skyrocketed 7.3%, rising more than twice as fast as the price of other goods. This is not an imported problem; 70% of the food Canadians consume is produced domestically, including 80% of processed foods, yet nearly 90% of agribusinesses now say the future of Canadian ag is at risk. Why are food prices rising? Punishing regulations, inflationary spending and Liberal taxes continue to force Canadians to pay more at the store. How expensive does food have to get before the Liberals stop strangling farmers and get serious about bringing back affordable food?”
“Madam Speaker, that was a well-informed speech on the Standing Orders, something that we were desperate for, compared with the last speaker. I thank him for delivering that leadership. This example that he gives shows the ruinous cost. I am not independently wealthy. I am a new, younger member of Parliament. There are many of us on both sides of the aisle. We could not afford those types of legal bills. I just could not do it. I have no idea what I would do if something like that were to happen, and I am sure my gen Z colleagues feel the same. I wonder if the member could give a little more clarity as to what the path forward might be for Parliament to try to prevent situations like that from happening and to protect all members, but in particular to bring fairness back to those of us who may not be independently wealthy.”
“He does not respect the few rules that he knows, so I do not understand why he is giving a speech about a whole bunch of Liberal talking points on various different issues when there were probably other better-informed members of the Liberal caucus who should have been speaking today about the actual Standing Orders and making this Parliament function better.”
“Madam Speaker, I found that to be a bit of an ironic speech from the member, because he is one of the most uninformed members on the rules in this place. This is a member who walked into a justice committee meeting and took a photo of the proceedings of the committee. I then raised a point of order with the Liberal chair, who completely whitewashed it and never reported back to the committee about whether the photo was deleted by the member. He does not care about the rules of this place.”
“Madam Speaker, these members want to talk about defending our veterans. They have just closed the veterans affairs office in Brandon and moved it out to CFB Shilo, so I think that is a bit rich coming from the member. Manitoba workers want to build. That is what the question was about. Whether it is critical minerals, forestry or manufacturing, uncompetitive Liberal laws have killed the jobs market. While plants are cutting shifts and communities worry about their future, the Prime Minister promised to build at speeds never seen. When is he going to get started?”
“Madam Speaker, Canadians are being crushed by the Prime Minister 's failure to get the economy moving again. StatsCan confirmed that Canada lost 52,000 private sector jobs last month, including 28,000 manufacturing jobs, a sector Manitoba families rely on, from aerospace in Winnipeg to value-added ag and resource processing across our province. Since the Prime Minister took office, $58 billion in investment has fled to the U.S., while the only job growth here has come from hiring more bureaucrats. Will the Prime Minister explain why his rhetoric about building and growing the economy means lost jobs for Manitoba families?”
“The rest of the units in that building could also be reasonably priced, but when municipalities are doubling or tripling their development fees, all that just gets passed on to the consumer, the young people who are trying to rent in this country until they can save up for a mortgage and get into their first home. Those are the ways that the federal Liberals could use the billions of dollars that are tied up in bureaucratic red tape and actually deliver more affordable homes and units for young Canadians.”
“We need to incentivize municipalities to reduce development charges. We would then reimburse them up to a maximum of $50,000 and scrap the underused housing tax, which costs more to administer than is collected. We need to remove gatekeepers to fast-track homebuilding through shovel-ready zones that the federal government would create, so that municipalities could then enable builders to get in right away and get the work done. We need to tie federal infrastructure dollars to results. That goes for municipalities as well. The carrot-and-stick approach is not new. We need to start incentivizing municipalities to bring down development fees, so that builders can build without adding development fees on to the cost of rent. I mean, we could have a building with 15% affordable housing units.”
“At that point, then, it might actually give builders in this country some optimism. It is also important to recognize that we often hear the Liberals say they do not think we have any solutions. They say all we do is complain all the time. Perhaps it is just that they do not like our solutions, but we have a number of them. I would just like to outline a few of them here today. One is reducing housing costs by cutting the GST on all new homes under a $1.3-million build cost, saving up to $65,000 on the cost of a new home and $3,000 a year in mortgage payments. Another is identifying 15% of federal buildings and lands to sell for housing in livable new neighbourhoods within 100 days. That would allow us to build thousands of new homes much faster than the glacial pace that we are seeing. We would cut building taxes.”
“They do not have time to sit down and spend hours and hours building an application for a large government program. The Liberals need to stop talking about frameworks and strategies. All that means is red tape, red tape and more red tape. They need to get all of the red tape they have added over the last 10 years out of the way so that people can actually get out there and build homes. We would strongly encourage our colleague who brought this forward to maybe consider adding some red tape reduction measures to this bill. It would still move through the legislative process, I am sure, with hopefully some measures that would not add to the regulatory burden for builders but actually remove some of that burden. Those measures could get added on to the bill as we move along.”
“We have to make sure that these programs that the Liberals continue to deliver are accessible to small towns and small municipalities. To some people in this chamber, the city of Brandon, with 56,000 people, is small. I am talking about a town of 1,000 people. Those municipalities do not have a whole lot of extra staff to fill out immensely complicated applications for government grants and programs. They are running as lean as they can possibly run already. I hear that from builders too. Builders in small towns do not have massive staffs with the time and resources to fill out application programs. Quite often, it is the builders themselves who are doing the books, either very early in the morning or very late at night, and then they are working on a job all day.”
“Those builders are coming in at the request of, perhaps, a retiring farmer who has a little bit of money, and the builder is eager to build a large home for their retirement. However, there are very few houses of an affordable size being built in our rural communities, which means young people leave. They have good jobs, but they cannot find anywhere to live. They do not want to stay with their parents anymore. They want to get out, live independently and move into that phase of their life, but there is nowhere to live, so they take off for Brandon, Winnipeg, Regina or somewhere else, and we lose them. We lose their job, their spouse's job, and their kids out of the schools. Our rural communities are fading away.”
“It has been a pretty slow start, but nonetheless we still have hope that the Liberals will perhaps find a way to remove the bureaucracy that they have massively expanded and put in the way, so builders can actually get to work and build homes that Canadians can afford. (1735) Also too often, I must say, programs are focused on the major urban centres in our province. The motion today is talking about young people and affordable housing. I represent a lot of very small communities, as do many others in this chamber. Often, I hear about young people having to leave small rural areas because there is nothing available to buy. Some of those towns may have just one builder, or they may not even have a builder and would have to bring one in from another community.”
“The government needs developers to be doing it, so it should be making it as easy and as accessible as possible for businesses to be incentivized to build affordable housing units and to build homes that people can afford to buy. I do also get concerned that we are often talking just about affordable rental units and not about incentivizing the private sector to build homes and encourage home ownership. Too often the Liberals get sidetracked talking just about the rental market, with not enough time spent focusing on home ownership. We had hoped that Build Canada Homes might take a different approach.”
“I hear from them often. Brandon got money under the housing accelerator fund, so I ask why more affordable units are not being built in the city. The developers, quite honestly, have been very candid with me that there is so much red tape and bureaucratic nonsense at the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, and hoops to jump through and boxes to tick, that many of them have just completely walked away from dealing with the government and trying to build the units. It is just so difficult to get anything built through it. They do not need to build affordable housing units; they are running successful businesses on their own.”
“We are very skeptical on this side of the House that it would have any impact on improving the situation. In fact it could quite likely make it worse. Young Canadians do not need another strategy from the Liberals. They have had a few. They already have the national housing strategy. They already have the housing accelerator fund. They have other programs under the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. The Liberals have all kinds of different initiatives, such as Build Canada Homes, that they have announced and announced. Almost no homes have been built relative to the amount of money that has been allocated to all the different initiatives, strategies and frameworks. Why is that? It is because the Liberals have put so many barriers in place to actually accessing the money; it is completely burdensome for builders to access it.”
“I am glad to hear that somebody on that side of the aisle is thinking about young people and affordable housing. Members on the front bench on the Liberal side seem to think everything is doing great, all their initiatives have been a roaring success over the last 10 years, there should be no housing shortages and the programs run perfectly. We know this is not the reality on the ground that our communities and young people across the country are facing when they are trying to get out of their parents' house and into the housing market themselves. While we appreciate the member from Nova Scotia's bringing this forward, unfortunately it is only another framework, which is part of the problem in terms of why there is a housing shortage in this country.”
“Madam Speaker, I want to begin by saying it is an honour to rise on behalf of my constituents, the good people of Brandon—Souris and of Westman. It is an important topic we are discussing here today. I often hear from constituents, when I am back at home and when I am here, about the challenging housing climate we are living in. No part of Manitoba is escaping that. I represent Brandon, the province's second-largest city. I also represent some of the smallest communities in our province. There seems to be a lack of housing and affordable housing options just about everywhere one goes, regardless of the size of the community. We know that action does need to be taken on this front, so it is good to hear that my colleague, one member of the class of 2025 whom I have had the pleasure of meeting, has brought the bill forward.”
“These hard-working men and women who do everything right and are too often left behind by these Liberals are the people who have joined our party, who showed up in Calgary, who support this team, who knocked on doors from coast to coast, who demand action and expect results. To them I say we see them and we hear them. We are ready to get the work done, and under this leader , they will never be left behind.”
“Mr. Speaker, what a weekend it was in Calgary. There were thousands of delegates, hundreds of observers and a resounding 87% in support of the leader . I send my thanks to the Conservatives. If there is one thing clear from this weekend, it is that the Conservative Party is a united, energetic, younger and more diverse party than ever before, and that is a direct result of this leader and his efforts. Now that our members have made that clear, and the Liberals' fear and smear campaign dies with a whimper, let Parliament get to work. Conservatives have endorsed hopeful solutions that would ensure the return of safer streets, as well as more job opportunities and affordable home ownership for young people.”
“Mr. Speaker, youth are in crisis. Conservatives know we need gen Z to stay in Canada for this country to thrive, but 93% are now concerned about their economic future here. The Liberals say mission accomplished, but disposable income is gone, home ownership is down, and half are taking on extra work just to stay afloat. Conservatives continue to put forward policies that would create good-paying jobs for Canadians and boost our economy, but the Liberals refuse to work with us. If it is truly time to work together and meet the moment, why will the Liberals not admit they have failed young people and give one of our many policy solutions a try? It cannot get worse than it is right now.”
“Mr. Speaker, a new report shows that gen Z Canadians have just $9 to $16 at the end of the month after expenses. Nearly half say they need to take on more work, despite already working full time, while others are borrowing from family or delaying bills just to survive. Home ownership among young Canadians is collapsing, and 93% say they are worried about affording life. The Liberals often boast that the government has never done so much for young people, but they cannot see it, do not feel it and cannot afford it. In other words, gen Z is literally not buying it. Will the Liberals admit that their failed policies have deprived young people of the hope for a safe economic future?”
“Mr. Speaker, food bank usage is at an all-time high this holiday season in Manitoba and across the country. Harvest Manitoba's latest report shows that 60,000 Manitobans are relying on food banks every month, and almost 50% of them are families with young children. This is what a decade of food packaging taxes, fuel standards and a rising industrial carbon tax has done to Canadians. My question for the Prime Minister is simple. When will the Liberals finally stop their inflationary spending and cut hidden food taxes so that Canadians can afford to eat this Christmas?”
“Mr. Speaker, Canadians know the truth about the other side of the House, which is that under the Liberals, their grocery bills are still going up. What the Liberals have done has made life more expensive, not less. How much worse does it have to get before the Liberals realize that there are disastrous tax hikes, packaging standards and out-of-control spending that are responsible for 60,000 Manitobans' now having to rely on food banks each month just to eat? How can the Liberals live with themselves? Will they take ownership, cut the red tape and the spending, and bring affordable grocery prices back for hungry Canadians?”