‘We will have to do less of some of the things that we want to do,’ Carney says
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“The upcoming budget will balance the operating deficit in three years by reducing wasteful government spending and doing more with less,” Carney said. “But the fact is, even with such efficiencies and with better management, we will have to do less of some of the things that we want to do, so we can do more of what we must do to build a bigger and better Canada.”
It remains unclear exactly what those sacrifices will be or how they will be distributed.
TAX THE FUCKING RICH
Tell the creditors to fuck off.
Reduce protections for copyrights and patents for 14 years.
Don’t buy overpriced American-industrial-complex crap.
I’ve scaled back my discretionary spending so much. I don’t go out half as much as I used to. I don’t spend at restaurants nearly as much. Cut back on subscriptions everywhere. Vacations? Maybe once a year now, and they’ve been more locally focused. Really focused on the basics and savings. Not sure what else there is to “do less” with after that. Is he talking about housing and food? :/
I’m so sick of hearing from Pollieve on everything. The damn thing opens up with his yapping. If only we get to re-hire ourselves when we lose our jobs
Already will never have stable housing, there are no jobs, food is beyond pricy, we’re burning from climate change and this fucking wanker banker wants us to sacrifice - more?? Get fucked.
Sacfrices is politcal speak for austerity. Who pays the price? The plebs. The government can never ask the richies or the corpos to shpulder the burden. Those parasites are job creators.
And just carefully structure laws and regulations so companies can continue to abuse foreign workers, to erode the fabric of our country.
I’m all for reducing the deficit responsibly but what’s with the neoliberal obsession of balancing budgets? This isn’t a business, you’re caring for a nation.
Exactly. Everyone always yammering on about how Canada Post isn’t profitable. Are police forces profitable? Is road infrastructure profitable??Those questions are never asked.
Right??? Our geography dictates that there is no way to both be profitable and ensure that all areas of the country have access to mail service, which remains how much government correspondence is handled.
All physical government correspondence should go through Canada Post/Expresspost. Amazon/UPS anything American should be banned from all levels of Canadian government.
Agreed. By much correspondence, I was referring to how there are still some services that have not migrated to digital alternatives.
Mail should be considered a utility like electricity and access to potable water. It shouldn’t be restricted to profitable areas.
Demanding more of the rich is a sin under the church of capitalism.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
They aren’t balancing the budget, just jettisoning stuff they didn’t like and running a deficit.
Um, because NOT balancing a budget means massive amounts spent on the national debt. Currently Canada has to pay 1 BILLION A WEEK on interest alone. Thats your and my hard earned tax money being spent just to pay interest, not even paying down the actual debt.
Now imagine if we had a balanced budge AND we could pay off our debt, like the way any financially responsible, prudent person runs their household. What could 1 BILLION dollars a week buy Canada? Imagine spending that on building roads, hospitals, schools, and properly funding all our social programs. We could offer free university tuition to any Canadian who wants it. Hell, we could actually build up a decent Heritage Fund like Norway has, and provide security for the entire country even with a maniacal partner threatening us.
When AB paid off its provincial debt years ago under Klein, we still funded our programs and every AB citizen got a $400 cheque because we were in a surplus. Yes, it took austerity, but we weren’t wasting money on interest.
But instead our federal gov blows our tax money on interest payments. Just not logical.
I don’t know about you but our family has been making tough choices for years now while your cronies get richer Mr. Carney.
No war but class war.
Canada has had the worst inequality in its history under Justin Trudeau. People need to move past the broken 2-party system.
100% we have two parties that seem to only serve the lobbyists, but we only end up voting for both these parties which leaves them with no incentive to change their ways.
The fuck is left to sacrifice Carney? We’ve been struggling for years. most of us can’t afford rent or eat. there’s nothing left to sacrifice.
I propose that the leader of the opposition no longer needs a residence at taxpayer expense. No housing for losers.
THIS. I say don’t pass the budget, have an election and we’ll reduce his minority further by electing more NDPs (cause progressives are already tired of having loaned Carney their vote) and with yet another election loss - end Polievre’s career once and for all.
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Human sacrifice? Billionaires and separatists to start.
Like the entire UCP? I’m down
Sacrifices for thee but not for mee.
I can’t believe the bank bro would do this
But you HAD to vote for them or the conservatives would cut your healthcare!
It’s just too bad there’s no third party in Canada.
NDP.
The people who need to hear this are not here.
Yup if we want real change we need ranked choice voting and proportional representation. It’s the only way get rid of their safe seats.
Maybe it’s just me but I don’t get what 'those tough choices" will be Canadians could soon face. The report discusses mostly the use of the word “sacrifice” by Carney and others, while only one expert makes a very rough guess what that could be in just one sentence at the end of the article.
I suspect that they’ll lower the wages and expense allowances for MPs. Haha jk.
This is a story in a theme of stories that’s been developing since we elected this government. Not every story has all the detail that’s been shared in the theme so far. Carney’s asked almost all departments of government to find 15% of cuts. Given how underfunded and understaffed lots of then are, the impmications of that have been discussed before and the consensus is that it would lead to significant harm to many Canadians, especially more vulnerable people. For example, already the staffing shortages in the CRA are causing people hours in wait to sort their tax returns when something goes wrong. VIA rail service is bad and it’s gonna get worse and more expensive. Etc.
Western Canada: “You have VIA rail service?”
Western-er Canada: “your tracks are in trainworthy condition?”
Looking at the 50s passenger rail map radicalizes me.
I know about this. I would have just expected to read about specific sacrifices after reading the headline. So now you can make your own guess as it’s more a clickbait headline imo.
I would have just expected to read about specific sacrifices after reading the headline
This is mostly another pre-budget statement to try and reduce the level of shocked surprise when we see the actual budget.
I should have known it’s not a good faith question. My bad.
Tough choices at the polls, amirite!?
