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House Hansard - 201

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 29, 2023 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 201 - May/29/23
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Lib.)
  • May/29/23 7:56:49 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, one of the things we have paid a lot of attention to in the budget, and in all of our budgets, is making investments that increase Canada's economic capacity, and we believe that investments that do that can actually be anti-inflationary.
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Context: House Hansard - 201 - May/29/23
Hon. Chrystia Freeland
  • May/29/23 7:57:51 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, we need to be very careful in our budgets about a couple of things. We had an eye on a few things. One was being sure we found a balance between fiscal responsibility, between our deficit and debt—
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Context: House Hansard - 201 - May/29/23
Mrs. Dominique Vien (Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis, CPC)
  • May/29/23 8:37:56 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, this budget has disappointed us and has disappointed a lot of people. Everyone knows that the debt has exploded under the Liberals. The budget has not been balanced in the last eight years. This is despite the fact that the minister made a nice promise in November that filled us with hope, announcing a return to balanced budgets in 2027-28. What we have seen in the budget documents is that, instead, there will be a deficit of around $14 billion in 2027-28, so there is no return to balanced budgets in sight. My question is this. Who asked the minister to go back on her promise to return to a balanced budget?
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Context: House Hansard - 201 - May/29/23
Mrs. Dominique Vien
  • May/29/23 8:39:37 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, we are responsible before the House of Commons for the documents we table, the budgets we table. It is important, it is fundamental in our democracy. Is the Prime Minister the one who asked the Minister of Finance to go back on her promise to return to a balanced budget?
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Context: House Hansard - 201 - May/29/23
Mrs. Rosemarie Falk
  • May/29/23 9:43:57 p.m.
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Madam Chair, in the 2015 Liberal Party platform, there was a commitment to balance budgets. Why has the minister abandoned that party platform promise?
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