Pierre Poilievre, Leader of the Opposition
“The Prime Minister uses fake numbers and unusual accounting to hide his spending. If a business did this, it would be fraud. The budget officer says he will add $700 billion in debt over five years. How much will this cost Canadians?”
“Mr. Speaker, the numbers I cited are from his government, so he must be in on it then. He cooked the books on immigration. He cooked the books on debt. He will stand up now and give fake and phony statistics on debt and deficit, but that is because he is dividing his expenditures onto not one, not two, but three different credit cards, using accounting rules that no one else in the world uses. If a company did it, they would be criminally charged for defrauding their shareholders. The Parliamentary Budget Officer says that the Prime Minister will add $700 billion of new debt over the next five years. How much will Canadians pay?”
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Mr. Speaker, the numbers I cited are from his government, so he must be in on it then. He cooked the books on immigration. He cooked the books on debt. He will stand up now and give fake and phony statistics on debt and deficit, but that is because he is dividing his expenditures onto not one, not two, but three different credit cards, using accounting rules that no one else in the world uses. If a company did it, they would be criminally charged for defrauding their shareholders. The Parliamentary Budget Officer says that the Prime Minister will add $700 billion of new debt over the next five years. How much will Canadians pay?