Federal debt and deficit coverage, including program spending, interest costs, Budget Office warnings and the long-term bill being handed to Canadian taxpayers.
2026-04-30 ยท Federal Debt / Regulatory Overkill
Two damning analyses arrived this morning. The first: Carney's spring economic update isn't fiscal discipline โ it's an acceleration of Trudeau-era spending, with $536 billion in program costs this year alone, $25 billion above last year's projections, and no path to balance ever. The second: Canada
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2026-04-29 ยท Carney / Federal Debt
Carney's spring fiscal update landed Tuesday with lower-than-expected deficit numbers and $37.5 billion in new spending. On Wednesday, the Opposition delivered its verdict in Question Period. Pierre Poilievre called it exactly what it is: more debt, more costs, more bills on the national credit card
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2026-04-28 ยท Federal Debt / Liberal Spending
The federal government received a revenue windfall this year. It spent it. And then some. Finance Minister Champagne called that "restoring fiscal discipline." The numbers tell a different story.
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