Tag: economics

  • The Truth Behind Budget 2025

    Canada Is Being Told a Feel-Good Story While Standing on a Fiscal Cliff We keep being told to relax. That this budget is bold, visionary, transformational, “generational.” We are expected to believe that everything being spent today is not spending at all — but investment — and that somehow this will all magically pay for…

  • Canada Budget Review Part One

    Unmasking the Budget’s Shell Game: Operational Spending’s Sneaky Side-Step to “Capital” Preamble….Diving into the 2025 Federal Budget: A Page-by-Page Autopsy (Because Someone Has to)Alright, fellow Canucks – I’ve cracked open the 2025 Federal Budget like it’s a mystery novel, but instead of whodunits, it’s who-didn’t-see-this-fiscal-fireworks-show-coming. Plan: I’m reading it page by page, and whenever I…

  • Canada’s Debt Chart: The Great Fiscal Magician’s Hat Trick

    Folks, if you’re Canadian and you’ve just cracked open the latest federal budget—like, the one that dropped today, November 4, 2025, with all the subtlety of a moose in a china shop—you might have seen that shiny bar graph. You know the one: “Canada’s Strong Fiscal Position Enables Us to Respond to Global Challenges.” And…

  • Are You Kidding Me? Another Budget, Another Fairy Tale.

    Good evening, Canada! And for those of you tuning in from the Finance Minister’s office, wipe that self-satisfied smirk off your face, because we’re about to dive into your little game. Tomorrow, Canadians will be subjected to the annual spectacle known as the Federal Budget. And if the pre-game hype is any indication – all…

  • Carney’s Sermon on the Mount(ain of Debt): How Liberals Are Turning Canada into a Broke Cousin Nobody Wants at the Family BBQ

    Ah, Canada—our polite, maple-syrup-soaked paradise, where the biggest drama used to be whether Tim Hortons runs out of double-doubles on a holiday.But lately? It’s like watching a slow-motion train wreck directed by a committee of drunk uncles: the Liberal government, under the slick-suited Mark Carney, preaching “sacrifices” while rifling through your wallet like it’s an…

  • “Carney’s ‘Swing for the Fences’: Liberals’ Generational Investment Gamble Risks Canada’s Debt Crisis

    The Generational Curse: Ottawa’s Fiscal Mirage In the shadowed corridors of Ottawa, where the air grows thick with the scent of desperation, the Liberal government under Prime Minister Mark Carney is whispering a seductive mantra: “generational investment.” He delivered this line—and the even more audacious “swing for the fences”—at a pre-budget speech to a rapt…

  • The 2024 Fall Economic Statement – Fiction

    Let’s talk about the 2024 Fall Economic Statement (FES), the kind of thing most Canadians skim past because, frankly, it’s packed with charts and numbers that look more like a corporate PowerPoint presentation than a transparent economic roadmap. But here’s the thing—a closer look reveals some serious issues that aren’t immediately obvious. Let’s unpack this…

  • We Messed Up!

    If the last few years of Canadian governance were a movie, it’d be a comedy—but not the good kind. It’d be one of those cringe-worthy, slapstick flicks where every decision leaves you asking, “Who thought that was a good idea?” Enter Canada’s experiment with quantitative easing (QE), a financial stunt that’s left our economy wobbling…

  • The 2024 Fall Budget – A Hot Mess!

    Let’s start with the obvious: the 2024 Fall Economic Statement should have been a reckoning, a sobering account of failed plans and broken promises, topped off with a bold plan to right the ship. Instead, we got a litany of excuses wrapped in polished PR. The government is playing the “hope the electorate isn’t paying…