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House Hansard - 92

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 20, 2022 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 92 - Jun/20/22
Mr. Dan Albas (Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, CPC)
  • Jun/20/22 2:32:21 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the finance minister must be wearing industrial-grade noise-cancelling earphones to avoid hearing the calls from economists to cut her government's over-the-top spending. She knows that it is only adding gas to the inflationary fire. The Prime Minister has said that anything that has a hint of fiscal restraint is austerity. He axed Bill Morneau for wanting to get post-COVID spending under control. Is she worried that if she presents anything to the Prime Minister that remotely resembles a cut, she might suffer the same fate as her predecessor, who went from Finance Minister Morneau to finance minister no more?
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Context: House Hansard - 92 - Jun/20/22
Mr. Dan Albas (Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, CPC)
  • Jun/20/22 2:33:39 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, they keep trying to change the channel, but these speNDP-Liberals do not, will not or cannot understand that their obsession with spending is fuelling inflation and hurting Canadians. Doug Porter, chief economist at BMO, said, “Fiscal policy has every bit as much a role to play in dampening inflation as does monetary policy...and fiscal policy should definitely not get a pass in the inflation fight.” The Conservatives have been saying to cut discretionary spending and give Canadians a break at the pumps. Those are good starting points. The question is, when will the Minister of Finance stop fuelling inflation and instead start fighting it?
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Context: House Hansard - 92 - Jun/20/22
Mr. Dan Albas
  • Jun/20/22 6:54:22 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I just walked into the proceedings, and I wanted to ask to see whether the Bloc—
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