Budgets in government tend to creep like mould, not ebb like the tide.
Take the example of Indigenous occupational skills training. The Department of Employment and Social Development spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year funding Indigenous third parties who deliver the training. In 2017, the department was hauled over the coals by the auditor general because it did not collect data on performance indicators to demonstrate whether it was getting Indigenous people into stable employment.
Prepare for the usual sleight of hand that places the “needs” of the usual grifters above taxpayers.
"The Carney government’s proposed federal spending cuts sound impressive – until you run the numbers. Even with a 15% cut, spending would still be 22% higher than pre-pandemic. The fiscal fire’s still raging. Time to stop pretending that tinkering will fix it." https://t.co/M5wFQgfzGc
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) July 16, 2025
h/t Mauser
