Smith and Poilievre find someone to blame for their problems: immigrants
Danielle Smith has a problem. Her government is heading toward a deficit projected, before Thursday’s budget, at $10-billion. This is only partly because it overestimated oil revenues, with oil prices now projected at roughly $5 to $10 a barrel lower than forecast in last year’s budget. It is because the government set spending at levels that could only be sustained so long as the oil boom continued. She needs something, or someone, to blame for her excess spending.
Pierre Poilievre, too, has a problem…
POILIEVRE: Mass immigration ruined the quality of healthcare. Resources are going to illegals.
CARNEY: This isn't America. EVERYONE gets healthcare.
POILIEVRE: 100,000 DIED on waitlists due to out-of-control immigration
CARNEY: I have been PM for a year! pic.twitter.com/9mv4XIOw17
— Kat Kanada (@KatKanada_TM) February 24, 2026
