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Context: House Hansard - 129 - Nov/17/22

Mr. Tom Kmiec (Calgary Shepard, CPC)

Nov/17/22 10:50:14 a.m.
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Re: Bill C-32

Mr. Speaker, the Parliamentary Budget Officer identified $14.2 billion of new spending in the fall economic statement that had no details attached to it. Effectively, it is a blank cheque for $14.2 billion that the government is asking parliamentarians to accept. Why is that member supporting more inflationary spending when we know that Canadians are hurting? The right thing to do would be to not give a blank cheque for $14.2 billion to the federal government?

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Context: House Hansard - 129 - Nov/17/22

Mr. Tom Kmiec (Calgary Shepard, CPC)

Nov/17/22 11:07:42 a.m.
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Re: Bill C-32

Mr. Speaker, as an Albertan, I agree with some of what the hon. member says. Many Quebeckers and Albertans have the same problem with the federal government. The federal government thinks that it has all the good ideas and that no good ideas come from our provincial capitals. With respect to health transfers, the provincial ministers of health and the federal Minister of Health are always fighting over who has control over our health systems. As an Albertan, I believe that my province is best equipped to manage our health care system. I would like to hear more from the hon. member from Quebec.

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Context: House Hansard - 129 - Nov/17/22

Mr. Tom Kmiec (Calgary Shepard, CPC)

Nov/17/22 11:49:32 a.m.
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Re: Bill C-32

Mr. Speaker, the riding of Calgary Skyview is one I know well as I am often there. According to Statistics Canada, the median income in that riding after tax is about $87,000. That is not a lot of income for Calgary, and it puts people directly into the middle class. They will be paying thousands more because of the inflationary spending that the current government keeps supporting. I will ask him the same question I did this morning to a different member. The Parliamentary Budget Officer identified $14.2 billion that does not relate to anything. There are no specifics on how that money will be spent. It is a blank cheque. That is what the Parliamentary Budget Officer essentially said. Can the member explain where this money is going and why he thinks the current federal government deserves another $14.2-billion blank cheque?

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Context: House Hansard - 129 - Nov/17/22

Mr. Tom Kmiec (Calgary Shepard, CPC)

Nov/17/22 1:08:54 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-32

Madam Speaker, the member for Joliette is right. I think that the best part of his speech was when he referred to the moon. The Adventures of Tintin is one of the best comic strips I have ever read in my life. Indeed, “lunacy” is the word that comes to mind when I think of this government and its budget. Since the last budget, it has spent another $20 billion. In this update, which we could refer to as budget number two or another draft, the Liberals are once again lost in space, because the Parliamentary Budget Officer has shown that $14.2 billion of this spending is not assigned to specific programs. According to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, that is like writing a cheque without saying how the money is to be spent. I would like my colleague to tell us more about the fact that the government is lost in space.

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Context: House Hansard - 129 - Nov/17/22

Mr. Tom Kmiec (Calgary Shepard, CPC)

Nov/17/22 4:22:40 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-32

Madam Speaker, I was following along with the member's speech with the member for Calgary Rocky Ridge and we have just one observation to make. According to the government's own fall economic statement, within seven years we will pay more in debt interest payments than we pay right now for the defence department's annual budget. If the member is as concerned as we are with the national security of Canada and ensuring that we can protect our country into the future, should the government not get control of debt interest payments and make sure it is not taking on even more debt, thus assuring that entire government departments will be gobbled up by debt interest payments to the big banks?

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