Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

OTTAWA – The parliamentary budget officer said Thursday he expects the coming fall budget will reveal a sharp increase in Ottawa’s deficit that puts the government’s previous fiscal anchors in jeopardy.

Ottawa’s fiscal watchdog Jason Jacques now projects the federal government will post an annual deficit of $68.5 billion this year, up from $51.7 billion last year.

He said in a new report that he expects federal debt-to-GDP is no longer on a declining path over the medium term — a ratio that previously was a key fiscal anchor for the federal government.

The new prime minister was entitled to a six-month honeymoon to prove that he would be different. Well, Mark Carney has now had six months on the job. What does he have to show for it?

No doubt many Canadians still view him as a man of substance, a welcome reprieve from the man of shallow spectacle who preceded him. But that is a very low bar. As every schoolteacher and employer knows, evaluating performance is important. You can’t improve what you don’t track. The Buffalo Project has launched an advertising campaign and a website, reportoncarney.ca, to answer the bottom-line question: are Canadians’ social and economic circumstances seeing actual improvement?

At the end of a busy day at the United Nations on Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney was asked by a reporter how he could still have confidence in Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, who has been staggered this week by the release of a recorded conversation in which he casts some doubt on the government’s buyback program for “assault-style” firearms.

“Let’s first put this in context, which is that we’re talking about fulfilling a campaign promise. We ran on this first and foremost. Secondly, we’re talking about taking guns off the street in a voluntary fashion,” he said.

My bet is Carney will keep the DEI hire on, ethnic vote whoring is in the DNA of the LPC.