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Hon. Mike Lake

  • Member of Parliament
  • Conservative
  • Edmonton—Wetaskiwin
  • Alberta
  • Voting Attendance: 65%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $178,671.82

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Context: House Hansard - 236 - Oct/20/23
Hon. Mike Lake (Edmonton—Wetaskiwin, CPC)
  • Oct/20/23 11:45:03 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years of mind-blowing, unprecedented, previously unfathomable increases in spending, the government's response to every question is to ask why we will not help them spend even more. Again and again, we on this side will stand up against an incompetent Liberal government that is leading us down a path of economic devastation. Again, my question was reasonable and straightforward and I would appreciate an answer this time. What will the Liberal-NDP government spend on interest on its record debt this year?
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Context: House Hansard - 236 - Oct/20/23
Hon. Mike Lake (Edmonton—Wetaskiwin, CPC)
  • Oct/20/23 11:43:39 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians who grew up in the seventies and eighties remember a disastrous Trudeau economic legacy that most definitely was not worth the cost. Fourteen deficits in 15 years led to an inflation crisis, an energy crisis and a housing crisis. The long-term impact of interest payments on that Trudeau debt forced another Liberal government a decade later to cut a devastating 32% from transfers for health care, education and social services. The Liberal-NDP government is going down the exact same road. How much will they spend on interest on their record debt this year?
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Context: House Hansard - 186 - Apr/27/23
Hon. Mike Lake (Edmonton—Wetaskiwin, CPC)
  • Apr/27/23 12:31:17 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, it is astonishing to me to hear the NDP and Liberal members stand up in the House, with the record-shattering levels of debt and spending they are undertaking together, and call for, in the debate today, more spending. I hearken back to the Trudeau government of the seventies and eighties and the massive debt and deficits they rang up. This resulted in record cuts to social services, like health, education and all of those different things, in the late nineties, by another Liberal government, precipitated by the massive levels of debt taken on by the Trudeau government of the seventies and eighties. I wonder if the hon. member could reflect on what it was like in the late nineties, when we saw $35 billion cut from health, education and social services transfers in this country.
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Context: House Hansard - 124 - Nov/3/22
Hon. Mike Lake (Edmonton—Wetaskiwin, CPC)
  • Nov/3/22 3:01:08 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, let us talk about the real effect of Liberal economic policy. The original Trudeau spending legacy was 14 deficits in 15 years, an inflation, housing and energy crisis for Canadians at the time, and, as a result of the crippling debt, devastating cuts to health and education transfers a generation later by another Liberal government. It is the classic Liberal economic one-two punch: short-term pain and long-term pain. Would somebody please have the courage to stand up over there and his or her Prime Minister to just stop making the problem worse?
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