The funny thing about Chrystia Freeland’s latest budget is that everyone knew what she was going to do, even as she gave speeches insisting she wasn’t going to do it.
What everyone expected was that she would announce a big plan to spend billions and billions more dollars on top of the hundreds of billions the Trudeau government has already borrowed and spent in its seven years of power. The Liberals don’t have the new billions any more than they had the previous billions. They just borrow it. Since 2015 the Trudeau Liberals have spent at least $500 billion they didn’t have, almost doubling the debt of all the prime ministers that went before them.
