Discussion · Oral Questions
Adam Chambers Conservative
“Past finance ministers kept their promises to lower the deficit. The Prime Minister is breaking his spending limits at the very first chance.”
“Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my colleague very much, but let us spare Canadians the lecture. When Paul Martin was the finance minister, he met every single deficit reduction target and fiscal anchor that was imposed. At the very first opportunity, the Prime Minister is choosing to break it. In fact, there has not been a finance minister in over a decade that has bothered to even care to keep the fiscal promise. What good is a promise if the Prime Minister has no intention of keeping it?”
Official Hansard
Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my colleague very much, but let us spare Canadians the lecture. When Paul Martin was the finance minister, he met every single deficit reduction target and fiscal anchor that was imposed. At the very first opportunity, the Prime Minister is choosing to break it. In fact, there has not been a finance minister in over a decade that has bothered to even care to keep the fiscal promise. What good is a promise if the Prime Minister has no intention of keeping it?