Tory Redux

Category: Canadian politics

  • The Hidden Costs of Canada’s Growing Debt

    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 an investment. It creates nothing. It builds nothing. It simply drains resources that could be helping families who are struggling to keep up with the cost of living.

    The harsh truth is this: most of that burden won’t fall on us. It will fall on the next generation. They’ll inherit the bill for choices they never made.

    Fiscal responsibility isn’t about accounting. It’s about fairness. And right now, we’re failing that test.

  • Canada is on its way to becoming “Brazil”

    Canada is on its way to becoming “Brazil”

    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. Ordinary people become trapped in a maze of rules, forms, and procedures. These processes seem designed to wear them down rather than help them.

    It’s one of Hollywood’s sharpest political warnings. It doesn’t rely on fantasy. Instead, it shows how a system collapses under its own weight. This happens when the government forgets who it’s supposed to serve.

    And today, that warning hits uncomfortably close to home.

    We’re watching a federal government that keeps getting bigger but delivers less. Programs multiply while outcomes shrink. More money goes into feeding the machinery of the state than improving the lives of the people who fund it. That’s the road Brazil warned us about, a country where the bureaucracy survives, but its citizens don’t thrive.

    Gilliam meant it as satire. But for Canadians, it’s starting to feel like a preview.

  • Carney’s “Fiscal Anchor” Was Never an Anchor at All

    Carney’s “Fiscal Anchor” Was Never an Anchor at All

    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 anchor is not credible. The government has been shifting definitions and moving pieces around. It also relies on accounting tricks. These tricks smooth over the reality of rising spending and ballooning debt. Balancing the operating budget was always a political slogan, not a fiscal guardrail.

    This matters. When your anchor is fake, your entire budget drifts. And right now, Canada is drifting into more profound deficits, higher interest payments, and fewer choices for the next generation.

    Carney can put a shine on it. The PBO pulled the shine off.

    And the numbers speak for themselves.