Ottawa, ON – Canadians have seen plenty of announcements, speeches and press conferences from the Prime Minister, but after over a year in office, the country is left wondering: “Where are the results?”

Despite all the illusions, Canada is now the only country in the G20 in a recession, as three out of four quarters have seen a decline and business investment has fallen for the last five in a row. Homebuilding is down, with housing costs the worst in the G7 as Carney failed to deliver the doubling he promised. Mark Carney doubled Justin Trudeau’s deficit while Canadians continue to grapple with a cost of living worse today than a year ago.

These are the results of Carney: more costs, more crime, more corruption and more of the same. This session has proven that Carney is just another Liberal. Conservatives helped to expose the illusion and highlighted the human impact of Carney’s recession.

60 per cent of Canadians now report anxiety over their finances and 20 per cent say that over the last six months, all the food in their home was eaten and they couldn’t afford to buy more. That’s pushed one-tenth of Torontonians to become food bank clients, as across Canada, food banks saw 2.2 million visits in a single month. 

While Canadians are suffering, Carney dined out on in-flight catering, running up a $195,000 tab on just three flights to Europe. Conservatives called out the excess and revealed that in his first year, Carney spent $962,633 on in-flight meals alone. That could fund a family of four’s grocery bill for almost 55 years – without negotiating a single new free trade agreement to show for it.

As Carney spends almost $1 million on catering his private jet, Conservatives put forward real solutions to end the federal taxes on gas and diesel and the Clean Fuel Standard to save families $1,218 this year. Sadly, the Liberals once again voted against providing relief that would put more money back into people’s pockets.

Conservatives also foiled another Liberal plan to increase the cost of living by putting forward a motion to cancel their plan to triple the streaming tax from 5 per cent to 15 per cent. Despite voting against the motion and trying to place the blame on the CRTC, Liberals finally succumbed to Conservative pressure and reversed the tax hike. 

With extortion up 330 per cent across Canada and British Columbians facing a 481 per cent surge since the Liberals took office, Conservatives also focused on solutions that will deliver real action that will protect Canadians. That includes opposing the get-out-of-jail-free card clause in Bill C-16 so that mandatory minimums are respected. 

Conservatives also called on the government to introduce a bill that establishes 10-year mandatory minimums for extortion when tied to organized crime or if an illegal firearm is used, along with deporting all visiting criminals, gangsters and extortionists, including members of the Bishnoi gang. Conservatives also support passing the ‘Stand on Guard’ principle into law, amending Section 34 of the Criminal Code so that force is presumed to be justified if used against an illegal intruder.

Canadians deserve to feel safe and secure in their homes, and that includes from threats to their property rights. That’s why Conservatives criticized the government for failing to fully defend property rights in court after the Cowichan Tribes v. Canada created uncertainty for property owners. Conservatives called on the government to repeal Litigation Guideline #14, require explicit property protections in all future federal agreements and publish a plan in 30 days to protect Canadians’ property rights.

After another terrible performance at the Committee of the Whole, Conservatives also called out Carney’s Immigration Minister for her continued mismanagement of the immigration system and her refusal to support one law for all. Conservatives repeated our call for non-citizens convicted of serious crimes to face the same consequences as everyone else.

Minister Diab’s incompetence was also on display after it was revealed that the cost of the Interim Federal Health Program has ballooned to $822 million as tens of thousands of rejected asylum claimants continue to receive taxpayer-funded health benefits. It’s clear that the Minister has lost control of Canada’s once-internationally respected immigration system, and has to go.

Over the last few months, Conservatives also revealed the full extent of the PrescribeIT scandal, which burned through $300 million of taxpayer money – including $98 million outsourced to TELUS Health and $167 million spent on operations and overhead – for a program that failed to deliver more than five per cent of prescriptions before being shut down.

It wasn’t the only case of insiders getting rich: Carney’s Liberals handed out $200 million to well-connected Liberals for a gravel parking lot with a small concrete pad. While giving Maritime Launch Services $20 million a year, the company spends just $13,500 to lease the land from the Nova Scotian government. Who benefits? The Justice Minister’s former staffer serves as the project’s lobbyist, and the former Liberal premier of Nova Scotia sits on the advisory board.

Conservatives also called on the Liberals to reverse their planned closure of seven agriculture and agri-food Canada research and development centres and experimental farms. The Liberals’ decision would cause long-term, irreversible damage to Canada’s agricultural research capacity, food security and food production at a time when Canadians are already facing high costs at the grocery store.

Carney’s latest AI strategy was another illusion that might have given Canadians deja vu nine years after the first Liberal Artificial Intelligence strategy was revealed, which delivered no results and was replaced with another plan without details. 

It was clear this was another sitting gone by, and everything is worse than it was before under Mark Carney. Yet instead of defending his costly failures, Carney spent the session hiding, skipping 100 out of 136 question periods and delivering the only G20 country in recession.

Conservatives continued to fight for Canadians by exposing Carney’s illusions and holding the government to account.