Category: Canadian politics
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Crossing the floor has always carried a heavy political price, and for good reason. When voters cast a ballot, they aren’t just choosing a name. They’re endorsing a set of values, a platform, and a team. That’s why Michael Ma’s decision to cross the floor feels like a betrayal. It feels like a slap in…
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Recently, Tristan Hopper of the National Post examined the growing generational divide within Canada’s electorate. Increasingly, young Canadians are emerging as the more conservative demographic. They have spent a decade watching government mismanagement drive up debts and deficits. This has widened inequality and left them with fewer opportunities than their parents and grandparents. . Young…
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Canada will spend more than $55.6 billion this fiscal year on interest payments alone. Not on strengthening public services. Not on affordability. Not on anything that actually improves people’s lives. Just interest on a debt that keeps growing because governments refuse to live within their means That’s the part too often glossed over. Interest isn’t…
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Melissa Lantsman’s latest video cuts right to the bone. She points to Brazil, Terry Gilliam’s dark, brilliant satire. The film’s dystopian world unsettlingly mirrors the direction in which Canada is heading. In Brazil, the government doesn’t exist to serve citizens. It exists to preserve itself. Bureaucracy grows for its own sake. Paperwork multiplies. Departments expand.…
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The Parliamentary Budget Officer cut through the noise this week. They did what Ottawa refuses to do. They told the truth about the books. Carney’s so-called “balanced operating budget” wasn’t a plan, a discipline, or anything resembling a real anchor. It was creative accounting dressed up as credibility. The PBO lays it out plainly; the…
