Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre delivered an hour-long rebuttal to the Liberal government’s budget Thursday — a fiery speech that depicted the multi-billion dollar spending plan as a threat to the country’s future.
Poilievre was particularly critical of the budget’s projection that Ottawa will run deficits for the foreseeable future, with no plan to return to balance — a program that will push the national debt to $1.4 trillion.
Ottawa will spend more to service that debt — $54.1 billion — than it will on health care this year, and the debt charges will continue to grow as the government rolls over some of that debt at higher interest rates.
