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Canadians want a government that will control spending
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The honorable member for Luis Saluran
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Akawra.
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Well, what's really going up, Mr.
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Speaker, what's going up by 36% is this
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Liberal government's spending on
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consultants.
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Already last year, they were spending
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way too much, 20 billion. And yet now
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it's gone up to 26 billion.
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They have shown no ability to control
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spending. We can see that Canadians want
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a government that controls spending. Why
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is the Minister of Finance refusing to
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table a budget?
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In fact, he was criticized by his leader
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last week. Will the Minister of Finance
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commit to tableabling a budget this
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spring? The Honorable Minister of
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Finance. No, I'm sorry.
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The Honorable Minister,
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the Honorable Minister. Thank you, Mr.
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Speaker. That's fine. I don't need my
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full title. I'd like to thank my
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colleague for his question. He mentioned
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drama and I would just like to say that
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he also quite likes drama. We see him
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doing some pretty histrionic things
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during every question period. Well, we
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know that the conservative platform
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wasn't worth the paper it was written
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on.
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Everyone who understands math throughout
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the country ridiculed the conservative
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platform. Meanwhile, we on this side of
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the house, we were elected with a clear
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mandate to reduce dependence on external
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consultants and have a strong public
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service and accomplish our ambitious
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agenda. The honorable member for Louis
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Akiwenra. Well, Mr. Speaker, this is I'm
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not being a theatrical. These are facts.
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This government said it would reduce its
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spending on consultants, but actually
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we're seeing the exact opposite. 36%
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that's the increase on consultants. For
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those who are listening at home, know
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that for every single family,
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those consultants are going to cost you
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$1,400 in taxes. That's the signature
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move of this government.
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Will someone tell this minister of
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finance that it it makes no sense to
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further increase spending on
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consultants?
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The honorable minister of government
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transformation. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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Well, we have reduced our dependence on
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consultants, but we were also elected on
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a very strong mandate,
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a mandate to increase government
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efficiency, for example, by using new
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technologies. My colleague mentioned
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Canadian families. Well, this week we
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tabled a motion in the House, a measure
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in the House to give back on average
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each Canadian family $840 in tax cuts.
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Will the Conservatives support that
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measure? It's only common sense.
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