“Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague mentioned at the beginning of his speech that the Liberals have a bad habit of redefining terms. One of the things they redefined at the beginning of their mandate was the fiscal anchor of “debt to GDP”, which they changed to “deficit-to-GDP ratio”. They then started the sovereign wealth fund, which is based on debt, but that is going to give them more room to borrow more money and not have it affect their deficit-to-GDP ratio. Could the member explain to us how that is just another example of the Liberals moving the goalposts midway through the game?”
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Mr. Speaker, Claims · 35 wordshistory is full of governments that believed deficits did not matter, until they suddenly did.History is full of administrations that were convinced they could borrow indefinitely because markets were patient, until they were not.Reasoning · 22 wordsCanada is not exempt from arithmetic.Debt must be serviced, confidence must be earned and budgets must eventually reconcile aspirations with reality.Positioning · 29 wordsWe need to live in a Canada that does not reward bureaucracy, but rewards hard work.The Liberals like to live in press releases, but Canadians live in reality.PositioningPartly on point
