Actually, it's the other way around but hey, you believe what you want. Conservatives believe in both! WOW bet you didn't realize that did yuh?
Well, today is the Liberal/NDP Non-Coalition Coalition Budget Day!
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Yes, lecture me on American politics. A topic you know so much better than I do.
How many Presidential election have you voted in?
The Housing Agency is more of a Bubble's Garden Shed Housing Project Initiative.
"Here's your downgraded Canadian dream, peasants."
I'm not "lecturing" you on anything. But believe what you want. See, that's the difference between a Progressive & a Conservative. We allow & encourage discussions of various POV's; Progressives despise discussions because they have nothing to offer. It is what it is & Conservatives must learn to fight against the vile nature of the Progressives.
I will. Until Donny Dipshit outlaws it.
I know. I'm conservative. The progressives never get it right because even their best ideas never get enough traction to produce more than half measures.
Take racial discrimination in education, employment, and housing, for example. The "progressives" passed a law under which a victim of such discrimination could sue, no doubt paying for his lawyer with the salary he's not getting.
The proper solution is to make racial discrimination (just one example, extend to other forms of discrimination) a crime, and bring the resources of the state into punishing it. See, as it is now, an employer or landlord has to calculate the likelihood he'll be sued by a poor person. I'm sure that just scares the boots off him. Now, imagine if he had to contemplate the FBI coming after him for criminal discrimination.
Hmmm…perhaps you all need some human rights tribunals because they’re just so…awesome. You can already borrow the template from Canada. Yes I’m being facetious.
In these human rights tribunal in Canada, the onus isn’t upon the state to prove that somebody is guilty, but upon the accused to prove that they’re not guilty at their own cost, at zero cost to the accuser, and potentially significant financial reward to the accusers. Good times, and it makes being actually guilty potentially irrelevant.
Carney said during the Liberal leadership race that the Canadian economy was in trouble long before Trump became president — specifically criticizing the Trudeau government for allowing immigration to get out of control and for increasing the operating spending of the federal government by 9% annually.
Carney has promised to decrease the hike in the operating expenditures of the federal government — meaning the cost of such things as paying the public service — to less than 2% annually, and to balance that budget within three years.
But to achieve this, he’s changing the way the government reports on its annual deficits and debt in the Liberal budget to be delivered on Nov. 4?
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Going forward, the federal government will distinguish its operating expenses from capital spending on things such as “nation building” projects, which Carney describes as investments that create assets rather than operating costs.
But whatever he calls it, it’s going to be financed by bigger annual deficits and higher public debt that all has to be paid back, eventually, with interest.
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Acting Parliamentary Budget Officer Jason Jacques has described the anticipated future spending and debt levels of the Carney government in its upcoming budget as “shocking,” “alarming,” “stupefying” and “unsustainable.”
He warned the federal budget on Nov. 4 is expected to abandon previous fiscal anchors the Liberals set for themselves, including that annual deficits would be no higher than 1% of Canada’s GDP and that the debt-to-GDP ratio would decrease over time, etc…
Carney has promised to decrease the hike in the operating expenditures of the federal government — meaning the cost of such things as paying the public service — to less than 2% annually, and to balance that budget within three years.
But to achieve this, he’s changing the way the government reports on its annual deficits and debt in the Liberal budget to be delivered on Nov. 4?
Jesse Kline: Liberals use accounting magic to mask their fiscal ineptitude — National Post
With a sleight of hand, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne intends to wave away all the bad news
But whatever he calls it, it’s going to be financed by bigger annual deficits and higher public debt that all has to be paid back, eventually, with interest.
EDITORIAL: Our economic crisis began before Trump — Toronto Sun
Taxpayers can only hope budget won’t make current financial mess even worse.
He warned the federal budget on Nov. 4 is expected to abandon previous fiscal anchors the Liberals set for themselves, including that annual deficits would be no higher than 1% of Canada’s GDP and that the debt-to-GDP ratio would decrease over time, etc…
"We're two weeks from the budget. I think that what I'm seeing in Parliament worries me," MacKinnon told reporters in Ottawa, accusing the Conservatives and Bloc Québécois of not taking the matter "seriously" (???) while Canadians are looking for "certainty."
His comments come just two weeks ahead of Prime Minister Mark Carney's highly anticipated first budget. In a major test of confidence, the minority Liberal government must find another party to support the budget in the House of Commons to prevent thrusting the country into another election campaign.
"We have a minority government, but we believe we have a mandate, and when I see opposition parties ... ruling out the possibility of voting for the budget, that's starting to worry me, but I think it's them that are misreading the mood of Canadians," MacKinnon said. "If an election is necessary, we would obviously reluctantly, because we don't think Canadians want an election, but election there will be. It's the opposition parties who have that decision in their hands."
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His comments come as opposition leaders have been noncommittal about supporting the budget, which is typical in a minority Parliament when a budget has yet to be tabled. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has said he would meet Carney to discuss the budget but would only say he wants the prime minister to "reverse his costly budget plans" without specific demands.
The Bloc, meanwhile, has issued 18 demands, six of which they've called "non-negotiable," that include tens of billions in new spending in increases to provincial health transfers and seniors' benefits, among other things the separatist party has admitted would be "difficult" to obtain amid the Carney government's plan to drastically reduce spending and have some cuts in the budget.
Interim NDP leader Don Davies, meanwhile, has not made any demands for Carney, but has said his party would not vote for an "austerity" budget and called for “substantial investment” in jobs, health care and housing.
Elizabeth May…is she still around? Co-pilot-tink the Green Party?
His comments come just two weeks ahead of Prime Minister Mark Carney's highly anticipated first budget. In a major test of confidence, the minority Liberal government must find another party to support the budget in the House of Commons to prevent thrusting the country into another election campaign.
"We have a minority government, but we believe we have a mandate, and when I see opposition parties ... ruling out the possibility of voting for the budget, that's starting to worry me, but I think it's them that are misreading the mood of Canadians," MacKinnon said. "If an election is necessary, we would obviously reluctantly, because we don't think Canadians want an election, but election there will be. It's the opposition parties who have that decision in their hands."
Carney government 'worried' its budget won't pass, triggering a federal election — Toronto Star
The minority Liberal government must find another party to support their budget, or Canadians will be going back to the polls.
The Bloc, meanwhile, has issued 18 demands, six of which they've called "non-negotiable," that include tens of billions in new spending in increases to provincial health transfers and seniors' benefits, among other things the separatist party has admitted would be "difficult" to obtain amid the Carney government's plan to drastically reduce spending and have some cuts in the budget.
Interim NDP leader Don Davies, meanwhile, has not made any demands for Carney, but has said his party would not vote for an "austerity" budget and called for “substantial investment” in jobs, health care and housing.
Elizabeth May…is she still around? Co-pilot-tink the Green Party?
Yay!!! Elbowlections up!"We're two weeks from the budget. I think that what I'm seeing in Parliament worries me," MacKinnon told reporters in Ottawa, accusing the Conservatives and Bloc Québécois of not taking the matter "seriously" (???) while Canadians are looking for "certainty."
His comments come just two weeks ahead of Prime Minister Mark Carney's highly anticipated first budget. In a major test of confidence, the minority Liberal government must find another party to support the budget in the House of Commons to prevent thrusting the country into another election campaign.
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"We have a minority government, but we believe we have a mandate, and when I see opposition parties ... ruling out the possibility of voting for the budget, that's starting to worry me, but I think it's them that are misreading the mood of Canadians," MacKinnon said. "If an election is necessary, we would obviously reluctantly, because we don't think Canadians want an election, but election there will be. It's the opposition parties who have that decision in their hands."
His comments come as opposition leaders have been noncommittal about supporting the budget, which is typical in a minority Parliament when a budget has yet to be tabled. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has said he would meet Carney to discuss the budget but would only say he wants the prime minister to "reverse his costly budget plans" without specific demands.Carney government 'worried' its budget won't pass, triggering a federal election — Toronto Star
The minority Liberal government must find another party to support their budget, or Canadians will be going back to the polls.
The Bloc, meanwhile, has issued 18 demands, six of which they've called "non-negotiable," that include tens of billions in new spending in increases to provincial health transfers and seniors' benefits, among other things the separatist party has admitted would be "difficult" to obtain amid the Carney government's plan to drastically reduce spending and have some cuts in the budget.
Interim NDP leader Don Davies, meanwhile, has not made any demands for Carney, but has said his party would not vote for an "austerity" budget and called for “substantial investment” in jobs, health care and housing.
Elizabeth May…is she still around? Co-pilot-tink the Green Party?