The only exception to that would be IF election day was the same as a major HOCKEY Game !!!;-)
There are some things we just don't mess with ;-)
Mark Carney (Trudeau Liberal Replacement) as PM
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There are some things we just don't mess with ;-)
There WILL be NHL playoff games on April 28th. Almost guaranteed.
Polls are already open at Elections Canada office or the 18th 19th 20th and 21st too at advance polls so hockey isn't an excuse.
Tits up!
Mark Carney unveils Liberal party's election platform, commits to $129 billion in new spending — Toronto Star
The Liberal party's costed platform was released Saturday morning as voters continued to cast ballots in advanced polls over the Easter weekend for the April 28 election.
Earlier this year, Carney vowed to balance the government operating budget in three years, while using capital spending to spur the economy.
Under the plan, a Carney government would continue running budget deficits of $62.34 billion in the current fiscal year, declining to $47.8 billion in 2028-29.
A Carney government would cap — not cut — the size of the public service, and ensure program expenses grow less than 2 per cent each year, compared with almost 9-per-cent annually since 2015??? By changing the way those expenses are calculated, right?
Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice, or three times, and then ask for a fourth try ‘cuz it’ll be different this time with almost all the same players? Thank you but no.
The plans Carney released Saturday, would see the federal government dramatically increase spending and add a further $130 billion in deficit spending over four years.
Instead of a $42 billion deficit this current fiscal year, the Carney plan would see a $62 billion deficit. Next year’s projected $31 billion deficit would be $60 billion. The $30 billion projected for the following year would be $55 billion and the projected $28 billion deficit for fiscal year 2028-29 would be $48 billion.
Of course, that’s only if the Liberals make their targets, which they haven’t done in years, like 10 of them in the last three consecutive terms. They always have much higher deficits than even their own projections call for.
The fact is, the government only hits these numbers through vague calls for finding efficiencies, read spending cuts, hiking the fines and penalties levied by the Canada Revenue Agency on tax filers and by going after industry. Four times Carney’s plan calls for “big polluter” or “big emitters” to pay more.
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His favourite example of a “big polluter” has been steel mills, one of the very industries he says we need to protect from Trump’s tariffs making companies uncompetitive. Meanwhile, Carney’s plan is to increase the industrial carbon tax on Canadian companies, which will hurt industry and cost Canadian jobs.
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Carney is promising a balanced budget by the end of his government’s first term in office, the same as Trudeau promised in the 2015 election that brought him to power. Flash forward to today — with the Trudeau Liberals never having produced a balanced budget in their decade in power and having blown their own deficit target of $40.1 billion for the 2023-24 fiscal year by 54% — coming in at $61.9 billion.
According to the Liberal platform released Saturday, Carney is promising to balance the budget after three years, but not in the way deficits are traditionally calculated??? The Carney Liberals say their platform is “fully costed,” but that’s what the Trudeau Liberals said in 2015, before blowing their deficits sky high.
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Instead of a $42 billion deficit this current fiscal year, the Carney plan would see a $62 billion deficit. Next year’s projected $31 billion deficit would be $60 billion. The $30 billion projected for the following year would be $55 billion and the projected $28 billion deficit for fiscal year 2028-29 would be $48 billion.
Of course, that’s only if the Liberals make their targets, which they haven’t done in years, like 10 of them in the last three consecutive terms. They always have much higher deficits than even their own projections call for.
The fact is, the government only hits these numbers through vague calls for finding efficiencies, read spending cuts, hiking the fines and penalties levied by the Canada Revenue Agency on tax filers and by going after industry. Four times Carney’s plan calls for “big polluter” or “big emitters” to pay more.
LILLEY: Mark Carney's spending plans make Justin Trudeau look like a tightfisted miser — Toronto Sun
The Liberal Leader's plan is to spend more, tax more and hope for better results – it's a bad plan
EDITORIAL: Liberals fooling us twice on deficits — Toronto Sun
It looks like the Mark Carney Liberals are gearing up to fool Canadians on deficits in 2025 — the same way the Justin Trudeau Liberals did in 2015. Carney is promising a balanced budget by the end of his government’s first term in office, the same as Trudeau promised in the 2015 election that...
According to the Liberal platform released Saturday, Carney is promising to balance the budget after three years, but not in the way deficits are traditionally calculated??? The Carney Liberals say their platform is “fully costed,” but that’s what the Trudeau Liberals said in 2015, before blowing their deficits sky high.
John Ivison: Mark Carney's platform relies on fiscal alchemy and hopeful assumptions — National Post
These documents are not drawn up under oath and there appear to be a number of highly presumptuous assumptions
But come now Carney is a world renowned central banker , surely he will be different than the one he was advising .The plans Carney released Saturday, would see the federal government dramatically increase spending and add a further $130 billion in deficit spending over four years.
Instead of a $42 billion deficit this current fiscal year, the Carney plan would see a $62 billion deficit. Next year’s projected $31 billion deficit would be $60 billion. The $30 billion projected for the following year would be $55 billion and the projected $28 billion deficit for fiscal year 2028-29 would be $48 billion.
Of course, that’s only if the Liberals make their targets, which they haven’t done in years, like 10 of them in the last three consecutive terms. They always have much higher deficits than even their own projections call for.
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The fact is, the government only hits these numbers through vague calls for finding efficiencies, read spending cuts, hiking the fines and penalties levied by the Canada Revenue Agency on tax filers and by going after industry. Four times Carney’s plan calls for “big polluter” or “big emitters” to pay more.
His favourite example of a “big polluter” has been steel mills, one of the very industries he says we need to protect from Trump’s tariffs making companies uncompetitive. Meanwhile, Carney’s plan is to increase the industrial carbon tax on Canadian companies, which will hurt industry and cost Canadian jobs.LILLEY: Mark Carney's spending plans make Justin Trudeau look like a tightfisted miser — Toronto Sun
The Liberal Leader's plan is to spend more, tax more and hope for better results – it's a bad plan
Carney is promising a balanced budget by the end of his government’s first term in office, the same as Trudeau promised in the 2015 election that brought him to power. Flash forward to today — with the Trudeau Liberals never having produced a balanced budget in their decade in power and having blown their own deficit target of $40.1 billion for the 2023-24 fiscal year by 54% — coming in at $61.9 billion.EDITORIAL: Liberals fooling us twice on deficits — Toronto Sun
It looks like the Mark Carney Liberals are gearing up to fool Canadians on deficits in 2025 — the same way the Justin Trudeau Liberals did in 2015. Carney is promising a balanced budget by the end of his government’s first term in office, the same as Trudeau promised in the 2015 election that...
According to the Liberal platform released Saturday, Carney is promising to balance the budget after three years, but not in the way deficits are traditionally calculated??? The Carney Liberals say their platform is “fully costed,” but that’s what the Trudeau Liberals said in 2015, before blowing their deficits sky high.
John Ivison: Mark Carney's platform relies on fiscal alchemy and hopeful assumptions — National Post
These documents are not drawn up under oath and there appear to be a number of highly presumptuous assumptions
This is something that really should be done. But only government capital projects. Grants, tax breaks, tax credits, etc should be operational spending.
NEPEAN, ONT. – Diana Fox Carney introduced her husband beneath blue skies at a large outdoor rally in his chosen Ottawa-area riding of Nepean on Sunday.
“Mark is unflappable because he puts in the prep work that is necessary,” she said.
Liberals had best hope so because, as the election campaign enters its final week, the assault from the Conservatives on the tens of billions of dollars of new spending in the party’s platform has already started.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said on Sunday that he has long argued that Carney is the same as former prime minister Justin Trudeau. “(But) yesterday we learned that Mark Carney is far more costly than Justin Trudeau,” he said, pointing out the platform will add nearly a quarter-trillion dollars of extra debt.
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Over the past four years, the Trudeau government racked up cumulative deficits of $235 billion (2024–25’s is an estimated $48.3 billion). Over the next four years, the Carney Liberals are projecting deficits of $225 billion.
On April Fools Day, while most of us were focused on the real challenges in our lives — rising food prices, high rent, increasing debt, broken health care — the Trudeau-appointed Governor General quietly approved $40.3 billion in new federal spending. This was done under what’s called a “special warrant.” Sounds official, but here’s what it really means: Billions of your dollars spent without debate, without a vote, without a single question in Parliament.
There was no due process. No committee oversight. No media scrutiny. Just signatures behind closed doors. The spending was authorized while Parliament remained suspended — prorogued by a government that didn’t want to face tough questions about its ongoing Green Slush Fund scandal.
So, where’s all that money going? Let’s start with the biggest red flag — $150 million to the CBC. While families cut back on basic groceries and small businesses are laying off staff, the federal government decides that the most “urgent” priority is a $150 million cash injection to a media outlet that already receives over a billion a year in public funding.
Just days ago, a CBC reporter — paid by you — stood in the White House press gallery and asked a question so absurd it barely deserves repeating: Whether Donald Trump still wants Canada to become the 51st state. That’s not journalism. That’s a political plant. It came just as Mark Carney’s polling numbers were slipping, and the anti-Trump narrative was losing steam. Suddenly, the CBC steps in to revive the fear campaign? Coincidence? Don’t kid yourself.
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We need answers. Who is that reporter? Do they hold a Liberal Party membership? Have they volunteered for or donated to the party? Are they part of Carney’s backchannel communications strategy? If a private media outlet had done this for a Conservative leader, there would already be calls for a public inquiry.
The Treasury Board Secretariat — the same department approving all this spending — gets $1.1 billion of the total. Yes, the people cutting the cheques are writing one to themselves.
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation? Another $778 million. This is the same agency that keeps promising affordable housing while prices climb and new builds stall. Where is this money really going?
VIA Rail was given $166 million, even though ridership remains a fraction of pre-pandemic levels and the service loses money year after year. Why now? What’s the emergency?
Parks Canada gets $143 million. Statistics Canada, another $145 million. Telefilm Canada? $75 million. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council? $246 million.
Even the Canadian Museum of History — which charges admission and has substantial private donations — was handed almost $10 million.
Then there’s the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, which received $1.5 million despite reporting $28 million in investments and over $1.2 million in passive income last year.
This isn’t emergency spending. It’s political spending. It’s a desperate government shovelling money to departments, agencies, and institutions that will protect its legacy and promote its talking points during an election campaign.
All of this was done while Parliament was suspended — on purpose — to avoid scrutiny.
The Liberals have learned that when you shut down the debate, you can do whatever you want. No questions. No opposition. Just unchecked power.
None of this makes your life better. Not one line item in that $40.3 billion package will reduce your tax burden, shorten your wait time in the ER, or make your street safer. The money vanishes into a bloated machine that serves itself.
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“Mark is unflappable because he puts in the prep work that is necessary,” she said.
Liberals had best hope so because, as the election campaign enters its final week, the assault from the Conservatives on the tens of billions of dollars of new spending in the party’s platform has already started.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said on Sunday that he has long argued that Carney is the same as former prime minister Justin Trudeau. “(But) yesterday we learned that Mark Carney is far more costly than Justin Trudeau,” he said, pointing out the platform will add nearly a quarter-trillion dollars of extra debt.
John Ivison: Conservative hopes are resurrected by Carney’s eye-watering spending plan — National Post
Switch voters will likely find the prospect of adding a quarter-trillion dollars to the national debt a haunting prospect
On April Fools Day, while most of us were focused on the real challenges in our lives — rising food prices, high rent, increasing debt, broken health care — the Trudeau-appointed Governor General quietly approved $40.3 billion in new federal spending. This was done under what’s called a “special warrant.” Sounds official, but here’s what it really means: Billions of your dollars spent without debate, without a vote, without a single question in Parliament.
There was no due process. No committee oversight. No media scrutiny. Just signatures behind closed doors. The spending was authorized while Parliament remained suspended — prorogued by a government that didn’t want to face tough questions about its ongoing Green Slush Fund scandal.
So, where’s all that money going? Let’s start with the biggest red flag — $150 million to the CBC. While families cut back on basic groceries and small businesses are laying off staff, the federal government decides that the most “urgent” priority is a $150 million cash injection to a media outlet that already receives over a billion a year in public funding.
Just days ago, a CBC reporter — paid by you — stood in the White House press gallery and asked a question so absurd it barely deserves repeating: Whether Donald Trump still wants Canada to become the 51st state. That’s not journalism. That’s a political plant. It came just as Mark Carney’s polling numbers were slipping, and the anti-Trump narrative was losing steam. Suddenly, the CBC steps in to revive the fear campaign? Coincidence? Don’t kid yourself.
KLEIN: No debate, no vote, $40B gone — are you paying attention yet? — Winnipeg Sun
Stop what you’re doing. You need to know what just happened — because it affects every taxpayer, every small business, every Canadian trying to hang on. On April 1, while most of us were focused on the real challenges in our lives — rising food prices, high rent, increasing debt, broken health...
The Treasury Board Secretariat — the same department approving all this spending — gets $1.1 billion of the total. Yes, the people cutting the cheques are writing one to themselves.
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation? Another $778 million. This is the same agency that keeps promising affordable housing while prices climb and new builds stall. Where is this money really going?
VIA Rail was given $166 million, even though ridership remains a fraction of pre-pandemic levels and the service loses money year after year. Why now? What’s the emergency?
Parks Canada gets $143 million. Statistics Canada, another $145 million. Telefilm Canada? $75 million. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council? $246 million.
Even the Canadian Museum of History — which charges admission and has substantial private donations — was handed almost $10 million.
Then there’s the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, which received $1.5 million despite reporting $28 million in investments and over $1.2 million in passive income last year.
This isn’t emergency spending. It’s political spending. It’s a desperate government shovelling money to departments, agencies, and institutions that will protect its legacy and promote its talking points during an election campaign.
All of this was done while Parliament was suspended — on purpose — to avoid scrutiny.
The Liberals have learned that when you shut down the debate, you can do whatever you want. No questions. No opposition. Just unchecked power.
None of this makes your life better. Not one line item in that $40.3 billion package will reduce your tax burden, shorten your wait time in the ER, or make your street safer. The money vanishes into a bloated machine that serves itself.
KLEIN: Buyer beware: Political billion-dollar plans have one source — you — Winnipeg Sun
There’s a reason the phrase “buyer beware” has stood the test of time. In politics, it’s more relevant now than ever. Mark Carney, the man being floated as the Liberal Party’s next saviour, is busy making big promises — just like his predecessor. Before Canadians rush to buy what Carney is...