The annoying thing is that for a lot of his voters it seems like his decisions have been surprising. I’m seeing a lot of, “trust the plan,” sort of comments elsewhere like this is all leading to some bait-and-switch social democratic turn. I think the Liberal campaign didn’t focus on his fiscal orthodoxy and a lot of people just projected whatever they wanted him to be onto him.

If this party could implode after only one serious attempt at government, it would make me really happy.

“You will be expected to bring forward ambitious savings proposals to spend less on the day-to-day running of government, and invest more in building a strong, united Canadian economy,” Mr. Champagne wrote in one of the letters.

So cuts to the public service and services to fund loans/giveaways to the private sector.

“Through this ambitious review each minister should examine the programs and activities in their portfolio to determine which are: meeting their objectives, are core to the federal mandate, and complement versus duplicate what is offered elsewhere by the federal government or by other levels of government,” it states.

Anyone who has been through a round of layoffs recognizes this language. All it’s missing is a need to find “efficiencies”. Carney is looking less and less like the genius economy understander I was told he was and more and more like a bog standard orthodox Friedmanite.

“Whoa, you say you don’t like Nazis? That makes YOU the Nazi!”

Did you see that Gestapo budget? This is it.

This guy would drink the flavour aid without a second thought. Or a first one.

Okay, but Carney is not going to tax the ultra wealthy. His track record so far is cutting taxes, including one targeting the wealthy specifically. People talk about raising military spending without considering that that money is going to have to come at the expense of something else. We talk about the cost in terms of percentage of GDP because it makes a nice small non-scary percentage like 5%. But that represents just shy of a third of the national budget, over double what we just recently raised our spending to. That money is not going to come from new taxes on the wealthy, it’s going to come from cuts to services. Health care being the meatiest place to make those cuts.

There’s also lots of (frequently not even that) old games that I never got around to/never heard about that I can now get on sale for 5$ or whatever, so it’s not always a matter of replaying.

30% of the budget. Certainly the end of nationalized health care. That’s worth it to you?

And if you think the US won’t engage in the sorts of tactics it currently is engaging in to demand we spend more of our military budget on them then you are mistaken.

That doesn’t justify spending more as a percentage of our GDP on the military than the USA who spends more than the next 10 or something states combined. I’m not giving up nationalized health care because Donald fucking Trump wants to shake down NATO and make Canada spend 30% of it’s national budget on American arms.

We don’t need to increase the military budget to 5% of GDP, a greater share than the US currently spends on it’s military by 1.6%. That’s insane and will certainly mean cuts to services like health care.

Taxes cut under this government:

1. Consumer carbon tax

2. Capital gains tax increase

3. Digital Services Tax

Carney cuts taxes like he won as leader of the CPC.

Carney is running to the Conservatives for support more than he is the NDP. There’s a lot to criticize him for from the left. Whereas the right has got three tax cuts and a promise to hugely increase the military budget in just a few months of this government.

Happy Canada Day to you all.

Between selling out Canada’s sovereignty and the NATO target he’s doing a lot of appeasing. I don’t think he deserves all the grace you’re giving him.

Canada’s sovereignty means that little to you? Your elected representative just got overruled by a foreign leader.

I really don’t care what the trade deal looks like, letting the US president dictate Canada’s internal tax policy is a bridge too far for me.

I don’t agree, but even if I grant it do you feel great about a hostile foreign leader dictating your country’s laws? The DST was finished legislation, legally passed by Canadian’s elected representatives. And now it’s gone. Because Trump says so.

Carney sure seems like he’s in a hurry to use any excuse to cut a tax. Letting Trump dictate Canada’s internal policy is one hell of a win to give away.

Boy, the moment this guy didn’t have an election to win he tied those elbows right to his sides, huh?

I wonder what all the people who shamed 3rd party voters will say if establishment Democrats start throwing their support behind an independent Cuomo.