Finance
Question period on finance, held just before the government’s economic update was to be tabled. Conservatives, including Melissa Lantsman, Jasraj Hallan, and Pierre Paul-Hus, said the Prime Minister had promised to spend less but instead doubled the deficit and added tens of billions in new spending, which they linked to high grocery and housing costs, household debt, inflation, food bank use, and seniors in Quebec struggling on fixed incomes; they asked the government to keep the deficit under $31 billion. Liberal ministers, including Dominic LeBlanc, Steven MacKinnon, and Mélanie Joly, said the update would soon show good economic news, spending controls, growth among the highest in the G7, and inflation back within the Bank of Canada’s target range; MacKinnon challenged the Conservatives to say what they would cut. Part of the exchange involved LeBlanc correcting his earlier statement about when the finance minister would present the update.Written by AI from the debate. Updated .
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