Discussion · Oral Questions
Mike Lake Conservative
“In 2015, Canada had a balanced budget and debt of $616 billion. The government's new budget will add more debt in five years than Canada took on in 148 years. When will this out-of-control deficit spending end?”
“Mr. Speaker, back in the real world, in 2015, Canada had a balanced budget and the richest middle class in the world. After a global economic meltdown, Canada’s federal debt was $616 billion. Yesterday, we found out that after a decade of mismanagement, the Liberals’ costly credit card budget would add more debt in the next five years than our country accumulated in 148 years. The Liberals have a predictable and increasingly tiresome response, an almost trance-like repetition of all the new things they are spending on in, entirely fuelled by massively out-of-control debt. When will this unconstrained explosion of deficit spending end?”
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Mr. Speaker, back in the real world, in 2015, Canada had a balanced budget and the richest middle class in the world. After a global economic meltdown, Canada’s federal debt was $616 billion. Yesterday, we found out that after a decade of mismanagement, the Liberals’ costly credit card budget would add more debt in the next five years than our country accumulated in 148 years. The Liberals have a predictable and increasingly tiresome response, an almost trance-like repetition of all the new things they are spending on in, entirely fuelled by massively out-of-control debt. When will this unconstrained explosion of deficit spending end?