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House Hansard - 320

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 29, 2024 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • May/29/24 2:23:01 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has had an epiphany. In an interview with The Chronicle Herald, a Halifax newspaper, he said that when people ask him for even more government money, he tells them that as soon as the government spends money, inflation rises by exactly the same amount. Why did I not think of that? Spending more money than we have causes inflation. Can these revelations coax him to admit that budgets do not balance themselves?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • May/29/24 2:25:47 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has had a revelation. In an interview with Halifax's The Chronicle Herald, he told how he responded to people asking for him to spend even more government money. He said, “As soon as you do that, inflation goes up by exactly [the same] amount. Right.” Right. Why did I not think of that? My goodness, spending money we do not have actually causes inflation. In the middle of having epiphanies, has the Prime Minister also realized that budgets do not balance themselves?
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