Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to appear before a parliamentary committee to explain his plan to address Canada’s deficit spending, rising debt interest, and taxation.
Poilievre has announced the Conservatives will table a motion in the House of Commons on Oct. 27 to compel Carney to appear before the finance committee.
“The fastest-growing item in your budget is not health, military or seniors’ benefits. It is debt interest,” Poilievre wrote in a letter to Carney posted to social media. “Canadians deserve to know how you will bring that burden down.”
Poilievre estimates that federal debt interest amounts to roughly $6,000 per family of four this year, arguing that the growing cost of servicing the debt leaves less money available for other government priorities….