Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is challenging Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland ahead of Thursday’s fall economic statement to make good on the instructions she gave cabinet ministers to fund new government programs with budget cuts.
In a note to Freeland Sunday citing Canada’s high inflation rate, interest rate hikes and the steep cost of living, Poilievre warned “the bubble is finally bursting and the bill is finally coming due.”
“For years my warnings that out-of-control spending would balloon inflation, and then interest rates, were ignored,” he wrote. “Now in a leaked letter the government seems to now agree with me.”
