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Ken Boessenkool's avatar

Those are Canadian spellings!

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George Skinner's avatar

It'd be refreshing if politicians even sometimes were just straightforward and honest about the limits of their ability to influence things: "Sorry guys - our country has systematically failed to build enough housing for 30-40 years. We're working to fix it, but it's not going to be quick and it's not going to be easy, and there's only a limited amount we can do right now without blowing inflation out of control again."

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David Lindsay's avatar

Wouldn't it be awesome to just hear the un-whitewashed truth? I'd vote for that.

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Akshay's avatar

At its core, this Liberal government has its motto as "Prioritize the PR/Comms of the message, not the message itself". Same as the one under Trudeau.

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Kevin Scott's avatar

Great essay Andrew. Thanks

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Glen Thomson's avatar

Do these people really know where their bread is buttered?

Does our politics really just train elected people to not give a f** anymore?

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NotoriousSceptic's avatar

Yes it does - it is proven that as a "Liberal" federal [politician you can get away with anything.

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YMS's avatar

They know exactly where their interests lie and it's not with ordinary Canadians.

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YMS's avatar

Canadians only have themselves to blame. We had a choice to elect a leader who seemingly has the average Canadian's best interest at heart but central and eastern Canada gave us the central banker with no ability or interest to govern for all. Elect a clown, you get a circus, elect a banker, you get Bay Street, Canadians be damned... elbows up indeed!

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Mark Tilley's avatar

So, Andrew, what exactly did your old boss Stephen Harper do to fix the The Income Tax Act when he had a majority? What? He just added more complexity by buying off Canadians with more boutique tax credits?

He was in power when I discovered sortition. And I had been voting Conservative for over 30 years up to that point.

Try to imagine how much sympathy I have for your party's predicament.

No, I'm not super impressed yet with Carney either. Again ... Sortition!

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Anonymous Mongoose's avatar

For someone railing against elitist, jargon-laden prose, you sure don't hold back in that arena yourself.

WTF does "Budget 2025 reads like a better once again telling their fearful charges not to worry, that this time everything will work out just fine, if they trust the smart man." mean?

I had to ask grok to translate it for me.

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CD Nicholson's avatar

It was, indeed, perfunctorily punctuated.

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David Lindsay's avatar

I agree with everything you said in the last three paragraphs, because it applies to everyone sitting in Ottawa. The rest sounded like the same whining of Conservatives who feel, rightly, that they deserved a chance to govern, and would have if Pierre weren't such a complete ass. For the third straight election, the CPC found a way to turn victory into defeat. Maybe they'll finally learn from it. Alas, the Conservatives in power overspend exactly like Liberals. The notion that they are fiscally responsible is pure bullshit. So Canada remains in deep trouble because of its inertia, and a leader surrounded (it appears) by dullards.

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Jacki Sampson's avatar

Finally, a great opinion piece from The Line. I'd thought they'd all turned left!

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Mike Canary's avatar

Maybe, just maybe if the Liberals would actually work to making Canada an attractive place to invest in, instead of ramming censorship bills through parliament, and celebrating Judas d’Entremont and a budget that’s 8months late - we might actually get somebody, anybody to actually invest in Canada besides Melanie Joly’s power of procurement. I mean it’s only been 197 days since the Carney Liberals were elected to a minority FFS. ENOUGH OF THE PHOTO OPS, and the same useless re-announcements that gets nothing built.

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Carolyn L's avatar

Fantastic article!

Carney and all the head-bobber Cabinet ministers (who helped Trudeau create the current mess we are in) are so far removed from reality.

I am senior with grown children, several grandchildren and my concern is Canada's future for them. I have NO hope with this charade of a government.

I am so tired of Liberals saying they know what Canadians want .... THEY DO NOT!

They need to stop blaming Trump for everything, the Liberals were in power for 10 years and look where we are!

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Clay Eddy Arbuckle's avatar

“Thank Fuck Canada is being recogniz(s)ed..” as being run by elites,for elites. Nothing for my son’s generation,except bills and taxes. They suck the big one

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Dean's avatar

A better read, versus the Budget preamble, is Ben Mulroneys' Obituary for Canada that I read just this morning. Awaiting the unleashing of Canadian super energydom! ha ha ha

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SquizzRadical's avatar

"What's that about nexus, Vera?"

"Is that some fish or new government thingamajig?"

"Well, it's one of them fancy words in that budget."

"I'm not a rocket scientist, Vera. I catch fish."

...and this is how the conversation would go at the local Tim's in Nova Scotia.

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Joanne Dunne's avatar

OMG do you want some cheese with that?

NEXUS: an important connection or link between the parts of a system or a group of things

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