Commons debates Liberal budget projecting $78-billion deficit

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1. deflected
   The BudgetMelissa Lantsman (Conservative) asked Mark Carney (Liberal). loaded question.The answer shifts to investment benefits without addressing deficit, debt or inflation concerns.This budget is about building this great country, and what this budget shows is that with the trillion dollars of investment that we are going to catalyze, we are going to put more than $3,000 in the pocket of every Canadian by the end of this decade.
2. partly answered
   The BudgetMelissa Lantsman (Conservative) asked Mark Carney (Liberal). loaded question.The answer addresses health transfers and debt metrics but avoids the core claim about interest payments exceeding health or GST revenue.this budget preserves the health transfer to the provinces, over $29 billion.
3. deflected
   The EconomyLuc Berthold (Conservative) asked Mark Carney (Liberal). loaded question.The answer promotes budget measures without engaging the questions on food banks, housing affordability or inflation.75% of the new measures in budget 2025 are for protecting Canada's sovereignty and for making life more affordable for Canadians.
4. deflected
   The EconomyLuc Berthold (Conservative) asked Mark Carney (Liberal). loaded question.The answer reframes the budget as ambitious without addressing the spending, inflation or cost-of-living criticisms.this is not the most costly budget, it is the most ambitious budget for Canada.
5. misdirected
   EthicsJasraj Hallan (Conservative) asked Mark Carney (Liberal). loaded question.The answer lists tax measures and ignores the personal offshore holdings question entirely.this budget tightens tax fairness.
6. misdirected
   EthicsJasraj Hallan (Conservative) asked Mark Carney (Liberal). loaded question.The answer pivots to personal pride and future investments instead of answering the offshore funds query.I am proud of my record in the private sector, but I am deeply honoured to serve Canadians
7. answered
   SeniorsYves-François Blanchet (Bloc) asked Mark Carney (Liberal). substantive question.The answer directly confirms the $80 billion transfers and explains the age-based difference as justice.this budget includes more than $80 billion in transfers for seniors across Canada.
8. partly answered
   HousingYves-François Blanchet (Bloc) asked Mark Carney (Liberal). substantive question.The answer affirms help for first-time buyers and mentions the FHSA but does not address the specific credit access system requested.yes, there is help for young people buying their first home.
9. deflected
   HealthYves-François Blanchet (Bloc) asked Mark Carney (Liberal). loaded question.The answer lists budget spending items without addressing whether transfers will increase to match rising health costs.This budget includes $12 billion in health transfers and $5 billion for health infrastructure.
10. deflected
    Carbon PricingLianne Rood (Conservative) asked Stephanie McLean (Liberal). loaded question.The answer pivots to listing programs Conservatives would oppose instead of addressing the industrial carbon tax and food costs.if Conservatives vote against budget 2025, they vote against old age security, they vote against the guaranteed income supplement
11. deflected
    Carbon PricingLianne Rood (Conservative) asked Heath MacDonald (Liberal). loaded question.The answer quotes an expert on unrelated budget benefits without engaging the claim that the carbon tax raises food prices.Ottawa has quietly set the stage for some indirect relief—not through grocery subsidies or consumer-facing policies, but through infrastructure, trade, and administrative reforms
12. deflected
    Carbon PricingBlaine Calkins (Conservative) asked Eleanor Olszewski (Liberal). loaded question.The answer promotes Alberta economic benefits and criticizes Conservatives instead of addressing the carbon tax question.budget 2025 delivers a stronger Alberta economy by backing workers, industries and innovators.
13. deflected
    Carbon PricingBlaine Calkins (Conservative) asked Joanne Thompson (Liberal). loaded question.The answer highlights rural investments and questions Conservative votes rather than responding to the carbon tax and food inflation claim.I ask my Conservative Newfoundland and Labrador colleagues, are they are going to vote for the things that matter to all of the province?
14. deflected
    Carbon PricingDave Epp (Conservative) asked Adam van Koeverden (Liberal). loaded question.The answer shifts to sports facility funding and dismisses the tax question as focusing on imaginary taxes.while the Conservatives are focused on imaginary taxes, we are building Canada strong.
15. deflected
    Carbon PricingDave Epp (Conservative) asked Patty Hajdu (Liberal). loaded question.The answer cites the same expert on unrelated budget positives without addressing the carbon tax's effect on food prices.the very-often-quoted Sylvain Charlebois had exactly this to say about budget 2025: our investments and logistics and corridors and trade will bring prices down for food.
16. deflected
    Carbon PricingDavid McKenzie (Conservative) asked Tim Hodgson (Liberal). loaded question.The answer lists mining transactions instead of responding to the question on the industrial carbon tax and food costs.Last week, we worked with nine different countries to announce 25 different transactions to bring $6.4 billion to six new mining and processing facilities all across this country.
17. deflected
    The BudgetJean-Denis Garon (Bloc) asked Steven Guilbeault (Liberal). substantive question.The answer pivots to cultural spending and Bloc voting instead of addressing health, seniors or environment concerns raised.It welcomed the government's budget. This is the most significant investment in culture in the history of Canada.
18. partly answered
    Climate ChangePatrick Bonin (Bloc) asked Julie Dabrusin (Liberal). substantive question.The answer lists some climate measures but does not address the specific cuts, emissions cap removal or commissioner findings.We are going to strengthen industrial carbon pricing, reduce methane emissions and much more.
19. misdirected
    HousingScott Aitchison (Conservative) asked John Zerucelli (Liberal). substantive question.The answer attacks Conservative voting intentions rather than explaining refusal to cut GST on new homes.The Conservative Party of Canada is voting against the largest investment in infrastructure in Canadian history
20. deflected
    HousingScott Aitchison (Conservative) asked Gregor Robertson (Liberal). substantive question.The answer reframes to asking about budget support instead of addressing job losses or GST cut policy.the real question is, will the Conservatives support the most aggressive housing budget in Canadian history?
21. misdirected
    HousingSandra Cobena (Conservative) asked Anna Gainey (Liberal). loaded question.The answer ignores housing metrics and job warnings to discuss unrelated youth programs.We are investing in training and supports for 20,000 youth facing employment barriers, and in 24,000 additional Canada summer jobs opportunities
22. misdirected
    HousingSandra Cobena (Conservative) asked Rechie Valdez (Liberal). substantive question.The answer attacks Conservative motives on affordability instead of responding to development charges or housing sales data.What the member was really referring to was that the only thing recycled on the other side of the House is the Conservatives' slogans.
23. misdirected
    FinanceAmarjeet Gill (Conservative) asked Ruby Sahota (Liberal). loaded question.The answer shifts to public safety spending and insults the Conservative leader rather than addressing debt or interest payments.The Conservatives said they are not going to support it, but that does not surprise me, since their leader thinks the RCMP is despicable.
24. deflected
    FinanceGreg McLean (Conservative) asked Jill McKnight (Liberal). substantive question.The answer highlights business support and competitiveness but does not address deficit size, debt servicing or inflation impacts.The president and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Candace Laing, said that "the government has heard business' call to focus on the economy and has made some tough choices to attract investment."
25. misdirected
    FinanceGreg McLean (Conservative) asked David McGuinty (Liberal). loaded question.The answer twists the fiscal question into an attack on the asker regarding military support instead of addressing anchors or responsibility.Is the member seriously suggesting that Canada should not pass a budget that would allow us to give the strongest expression of our commitment to NATO as Canadians reinforce NATO's eastern flank by contributing to collective defence and co-operative security in the region?
26. misdirected
    Carbon PricingTed Falk (Conservative) asked Sean Fraser (Liberal). loaded question.The answer ignores carbon tax and deficit questions to attack Conservatives and pivot to unrelated praise for the budget.a working-class Canadian voting Conservative would be like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders, my goodness.
27. deflected
    Carbon PricingBernard Généreux (Conservative) asked Nathalie Provost (Liberal). loaded question.The answer shifts to border security and jobs without addressing the industrial carbon tax or food costs.In this budget, there is $1.7 billion to strengthen security at our borders.
28. deflected
    Carbon PricingBernard Généreux (Conservative) asked Marjorie Michel (Liberal). loaded question.The answer pivots entirely to health infrastructure spending and avoids any mention of the carbon tax or food prices.Budget 2025 includes $5 billion for a health infrastructure fund that will help build new hospitals, emergency rooms, health care centres and medical schools, to name just a few.
29. misdirected
    TaxationEric Lefebvre (Conservative) asked Mandy Gull-Masty (Liberal). substantive question.The answer ignores the tax cut on luxury items to discuss first nations protections instead.In this budget, we have decided to protect the position of first nations.
30. misdirected
    TaxationEric Lefebvre (Conservative) asked Mélanie Joly (Liberal). substantive question.The answer attacks the asker over aerospace jobs rather than explaining the decision on luxury boat and plane taxes.I find it fascinating when an MP from Quebec stands up and says that Quebec's aerospace industry is not important.
31. partly answered
    JusticeLeslyn Lewis (Conservative) asked Ruby Sahota (Liberal). loaded question.The answer addresses child protection intent but deflects the specific question about the Supreme Court ruling and charter focus.We are bringing forward legislation that would protect children.
32. partly answered
    JusticeLeslyn Lewis (Conservative) asked Ruby Sahota (Liberal). loaded question.The answer claims tougher sentences are coming but avoids the notwithstanding clause question and attacks past Conservative record.That is exactly why we are bringing forward new legislation to toughen sentences and make sure child predators stay behind bars.
33. misdirected
    FinanceBilly Morin (Conservative) asked Stephen Fuhr (Liberal). loaded question.The answer attacks Conservatives and cites a past deficit instead of addressing the current spending promise or inflation claim.We will take no lessons from the Conservatives.
34. deflected
    FinanceMatt Strauss (Conservative) asked Rebecca Alty (Liberal). loaded question.The answer promotes mineral investments and jobs rather than explaining the generational debt or broken spending promise.These investments mean good jobs, including in Ontario, and stronger communities and will keep Canada a leader in technology, defence and health care.
35. deflected
    FinanceColin Reynolds (Conservative) asked Rebecca Chartrand (Liberal). loaded question.The answer shifts to northern infrastructure and water projects without addressing why the government believes it spends Canadians' money better.we are focused on securing our sovereignty in the north and the Arctic, with a $1-billion infrastructure fund for airports, seaports and all-season roads in the north and in northern Manitoba.
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    The EconomyMichelle Rempel Garner (Conservative) asked Buckley Belanger (Liberal). loaded question.The answer ignores the lobbyist party criticism and instead urges Conservatives to support the budget for rural Saskatchewan.All we are asking those guys to do is what they have been doing for the last 10 years on the budget vote, which is to sit this one out so that Saskatchewan can finally get help for the province to reach its full potential.
37. partly answered
    The BudgetJenny Kwan (NDP) asked François-Philippe Champagne (Liberal). substantive question.The answer affirms protection of certain programs but provides no details on which programs face cuts or sunsetting.We made sure that, while we did a budget focused on the future and investment, we protected people, child care, pharmacare and dental care.
38. partly answered
    The BudgetDon Davies (NDP) asked François-Philippe Champagne (Liberal). substantive question.The answer references prior tax cuts and automatic benefits but does not address immediate relief measures for the affordability crisis.my colleague will remember that the first thing we did for Canadians was cut taxes for 22 million Canadians because we understood that affordability is at the heart of the concerns of Canadians.
39. answered
    Business of the HouseAndrew Scheer (Conservative) asked Steven MacKinnon (Liberal). substantive question.The answer directly outlines the remaining schedule for budget debate and upcoming bills after acknowledging the Remembrance Day remarks.On Tuesday, Bill C-14 , the bail and sentencing reform act, will be debated again at the second reading stage.