“Mr. Speaker, with regard to the sovereign wealth fund, I recently asked my colleague the same question. The other day, my neighbour showed me his bank account, and it was enormous. I thought, “This is a secret”, so I maxed out my credit cards and put the money in my savings account. For some reason, when I went to my accountant, he said I will never retire. I am wondering if the member can explain to me the difference between my neighbour’s bank account, in which he saved money over time, and my savings account that I just put money into. Can you explain the difference between those two?”
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Mr. Speaker, Claims · 42 wordsI find it hard to believe that the member is actually equating an individual’s own wealth with the country’s obligation to fund massive projects within the country.The idea of countries borrowing to enable to grow their economies is not something new.Reasoning · 7 wordsObviously, there needs to be fiscal prudence.Claims · 67 wordsThe government’s plan balances that fiscal prudence with a very solid balance sheet of the lowest debt-to-GDP ratio in the G7 economies, with an idea that we need to build strong nation-building projects going forward.1This is a way for the country to benefit from those projects long-term, as well as for individual Canadians to put up their own money to join in investing in those projects.
