Pat Kelly

Mr. Speaker, Algoma Steel is laying off 1,000 workers today, who will join the 108,000 full-time workers who lost their jobs in February. The Liberal government cannot blame outside factors. The rest of the world exists in the same global economy, but only Canada has a shrinking economy among G7 countries. When will the Liberals get out of the way and get rid of their taxes, antidevelopment laws [more]

Mr. Speaker, the government has spent the last 10 years setting the stage for today's rising unemployment. The industrial carbon tax, antidevelopment laws, bloated bureaucracy, staggering debt and deficits, failure to approve a single pipeline, failure to build any major projects, which it promised to do, and its failure to secure a trade deal, which it also promised to do, are all killing [more]

You've mentioned the fiscal situation in the 1990s a couple of times now. Mr. Jacques talked about that, too. In September, at the beginning of his appointment as interim PBO, he said, “Now, with the federal debt-to-GDP ratio forecast to increase, if we don't change things, we're going to end up there again.” In talking about the 1990s, he said we were “going to end up there again” if things [more]

In his testimony, Mr. Jacques was pretty clear. If we have time, let's talk about lapsed funding. You talked about executable policy. When funds lapse, that's non-execution. Do you have any views on that?

I have only a minute left. I really wanted your view. His point was that the debt-to-GDP ratio is rising. Do you think that a rising debt-to-GDP ratio is sustainable?

You were questioned earlier about the role of the PBO in communicating budget items. Your predecessor used some very strong, forceful language—not profane, in that sense—to discuss and to communicate the state of Canada's public finances. It appears to many that this was a contributing factor to his not being here at the table and your being here as an alternative nominee. How do you feel about [more]

Mr. Speaker, this morning's job numbers are a scathing indictment of the Liberal government's economic performance. There were 108,000 full-time jobs lost, the largest one-month drop since the beginning of COVID, and youth unemployment is now over 14%. We have the only shrinking economy in the G7, and we have the second-highest unemployment. Will the Liberals accept our Conservative proposals, [more]

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, talking about before the crisis, for 10 years, the Liberal government has passed antidevelopment laws, run up the national debt, driven down productivity, driven up the cost of living, bloated the bureaucracy, enriched Liberal insiders and made Canada the only G7 country with a shrinking economy. Today's job numbers are the result of a decade of failure and lost [more]

No. Wait a minute—

Okay.

Wait a minute. Canadians were told by the government that you would have that money disbursed by 2027-28. I'm just asking if that's going to happen. If it's not.... In fact, we'll take it that it will not. What are you on track to disburse by 2027-28?