The PM was absent once again, off to Oakville to tout his plan to invest in the skilled trades, while back in the House of Commons, the Conservatives had a Supply Day where their motion was on denouncing the “sovereign wealth fund” plan. With that in mind, Pierre Poilievre was also absent, leaving it up to Melissa Lantsman to lead off, reciting the scripts about the so-called “credit card” budget and debt servicing charges, and wondered when the government would stop. Patty Hajdu wondered if their support for skilled trades was “inflationary spending” and quoted the building trades unions. Lantsman said the government debts were “killing” Canadians, and Hajdu again listed all of those skilled trades who were being supported by the government. Andrew Scheer took over, and he also read the same lines, added that the deficit was double Justin Trudeau’s, and said some nonsense about inflation. John Zerucelli got up to note that the Conservatives haven’t talked about workers, and then read some quotes from building trades unions. Scheer obliged and said that workers were tired of having no spending power, and quote a Globe and Mail editorial to make his point. Gregor Robertson got up to say the Conservatives never want to talk about affordable housing, and how those new tradespeople would help build it. Pierre Paul-Hus took over in French, and he quoted another columnist who decried the lack of fiscal discipline in the spring update. Mélanie Joly said that she was flabbergasted that the Conservatives don’t take the tariff war seriously. Paul-Hus tried again, and Joly defended the social safety net for when Canadian need it.

Yves Perron led for the Bloc, and he decried that there was no support for more businesses affected by the tariff changes while oil companies were getting handouts. Julie Dabrusin praised their strategies for electric vehicles and clean energy—which wasn’t the question. Perron then worried that the was no added support for the media or pensioners unlike oil company. Joly was incredulous as those talking points, and said that she was just in contact with the Quebec finance minister. Patrick Bonin denounced the tax credit for enhanced oil recovery in the spring update, and Dabrusin got back up to praise the nature strategy in the update, which again was not the question.

Round two, and Leslyn Lewis wondered which public assets the government planned to sell to pay for his wasteful spending (Valdez: Hooray for the spring update and the sovereign wealth fund can help people join in with our success), Andrew Lawton recited the “credit card” script (Long: Your party is doubling down on building nothing), Rachael Thomas wanted an admission of failure (Hogan: Canadians should be deeply suspicious of your claims; We have the strongest fiscal position in the G7), and Cathay Wagantall read the credit card script (Belanger: Saskatchewan offers much to Canada, and we can help build Canada together).

“Let’s give some facts,” Rachael Harder says, the spins some bafflegab. #QP

— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2026-04-30T18:38:00.506Z

Sébastien Lemire returned to their former bugaboo about the pension software and new money for it in the update (Hajdu: We are modernising the benefits delivery system—ignoring the actual question; Our officials have appeared at committee and we are within budget and we are ensuring that the most critical cases are dealt with in the backlog).

Luc Berthold read the French script about “credit card” budgets (Chenette: We have such great news about sports funding; Ménard: Constituents will soon receive the enhanced GST credit while you voted against school food), Bernard Généroux read the script again (Provost: We are supporting families and seniors, and we are investing in the future; Guay: You are out of touch with reality), Eric Lefebvre turned to the question on the pension software while jamming in a “credit card” reference (McGuinty: You don’t support jobs we have create with the Canadian Forces).

Round three saw yet more questions on supposed the supposed “national credit card” (McGuinty: More jobs created with our announcements; Sidhu: More jobs create by our projects; Hogan: Let’s talk about the reality that we have the best economic position in the G7; What deficit spending are you worried about exactly?; We are see in record oil production; Chartrand: Hooray for skilled trades; McKnight: We are making investments in Canadians, like in skilled trades workers; Belanger: You guys have accomplished nothing for Saskatchewan; MacKinnon: Are thirty-three of the same scripted questions the best you can offer Canadians?), the former IRGC commander being allowed in Canada (Anandasangaree: We cannot comment on an individual case but we have robust enforcement), airport capabilities in the event of an aircraft fire (MacKinnon: We are working with stakeholders), mental health and public health funding (Chi: We must use every tool in the tool box, and we have expanded treatment options for provinces).

Apparently, if there is a balanced budget, food will ✨magically✨ become more affordable. #QP

— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2026-04-30T18:58:43.717Z

The Liberal benches are loudly counting every time the Conservatives mention Justin Trudeau. We are up to 19 so far. #QP

— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2026-04-30T19:04:49.613Z

Aboulatif: Spending goes up and so do taxes. Taxes have been cut (irresponsibly so). #QP

— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2026-04-30T19:11:16.010Z

Overall, it was a slightly rowdier day than it was over the past couple of days, and there were more interruptions from the floor including a couple of times when the Speaker actually called out certain MPs for their volume, which he very rarely does. And while the Liberals weren’t quite as repetitive today about patting themselves on the back for their skilled trades announcement at every opportunity, it was still no better when it comes to actually pushing back against some of the ridiculous talking points (which were very, very repetitive). Just how repetitive? Whenever the Conservatives recited the line about Justin Trudeau’s deficits, the Liberals started counting loudly how many times they did it (and got to nineteen). Steven MacKinnon took the very last Conservative question once again today to again point out that they asked the same question thirty-two or thirty-three times, which was good that he was keeping count, but man, this is just so tiring that it’s the same thing over and over again.

Sartorially speaking, snaps go out to Ryan Turnbull for a dark blue three-piece suit with a crisp white shirt, and a lavender tie and pocket square, and to Tatiana Auguste for a light grey jacket over a black dress. Style citations go out to Zoe Royer for a severe white collared shirt under a red cardigan over red tartan slacks, and to Ernie Klassen for a light grey jacket over a faded mustard shirt and a navy tie. Dishonourable mention goes out to Shannon Miedema for a black jacket over a yellow top with small blue patterns, and to Rebecca Alty for a mustard jacket over an off-white top and black slacks.