Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

Mark Carney’s first budget is every bit as unsustainable as the budgets of Justin Trudeau. That’s if we hold Carney to the same measuring stick that he used to criticize Trudeau’s budgets.

The current Liberal PM is fond of saying that the former Liberal prime minister increased program spending far too much, and now he’s doing just that.

Mark Carney may have to do another prime-time TV address.

Two weeks ago, the prime minister warned the nation of sacrifices to come in the big budget his government unveiled on Tuesday. But which Canadians will be feeling those sacrifices — beyond the public servants whose jobs will be cut — remains a story still untold.

So too is the question of whether this budget can survive a confidence vote in the House of Commons.

The Carney government’s first budget is being sold as “generational.” As the economic plan’s central metaphor, it might be spot on. But for young people, the takeaway may not be what the government hopes for.

The budget document and Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s speech make obsessive use of the words generation and generational. It’s a textbook case of branding-by-repetition — a nation-building budget designed as a piece of nation-branding. You can’t go more than a few paragraphs without running into another invocation of generational ambition:

“The level of uncertainty is higher than what we have seen and felt for generations.”

The federal Liberals pushed two themes in advance of Tuesday’s budget introduced by Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne. First was that this would be an “austerity budget.” Second, it would include a “generational investment.”

It’s certainly not an austerity budget.

“Generational” is the Carney government’s adjective of choice at this moment of consequence. The word appeared 11 times in the prepared text of François Philippe-Champagne’s budget speech and another 45 times in the 493-page budget document.

It is a word apparently meant to speak to both the gravity of the country’s situation and the bigness of this government response.

“This is not a time for small plans,” Champagne writes in the budget’s foreword.

‘Generational’ as in Generational decline.

If your goal is to elect a Canadian Mamdani then 11 years of LPC governance and this budget will do the trick.

OTTAWA — The Liberals’ newest addition to caucus, Chris d’Entremont, said on Wednesday that he was not “aligned” with his former leader Pierre Poilievre’s political ideals and hinted that other Conservatives may be following his example.

In 1931 the British Parliament passed the Statute of Westminster. For all practical purposes this statute granted legislative independence to the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire, which at the time basically meant Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Irish Free State and Newfoundland. The gist of this very famous statute was that the UK Parliament could no longer legislate for a Dominion without its consent. They were of equal status to the UK. And of these old Dominions, Canada and Australia were the glittering stars. These two countries had everything before them. They went on to perform brilliantly in World War II. Their post-war fortunes included producing some of the highest standards of living on Earth as well as being amongst the most free. Even as late as 2015 Canada’s two richest provinces were, in per capita terms, comparable to the top 10 of US states. And Australia had comparatively cheap electricity, low debt and high per capita wealth.

Since I was last propelled years ago into the purgatory known as “the lockup,” where journalists spend budget day, have either process or contents improved? No. Instead they now insert a false stolen-land “acknowledgement” before even getting to the same old same old labeled bold and new. Which is especially troubling at this supposedly critical juncture.