If Carney’s budget fails, Canadians are heading back to the polls
If the Liberals’ budget does not get the support required from the other parties to pass in the House of Commons, Canadians could soon be back at the polls.
If the Liberals’ budget does not get the support required from the other parties to pass in the House of Commons, Canadians could soon be back at the polls as the Carney government remains three seats shy of a majority.
“If an election is necessary, we would obviously, reluctantly, because we don’t think Canadians want an election, but election there will be,” Liberal House Leader Steve MacKinnon told reporters on Parliament Hill on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s highly anticipated budget is set to be tabled on November 4 after being kicked down the line in the spring, when federal budgets have traditionally been presented.
“What I’m seeing in Parliament worries me,” said MacKinnon. “What we’re seeing is our opposition parties, the Bloc Québécois, who, without having even read the budget, eliminate the possibility that they will support it, and the Conservatives making just ludicrous demands with respect to the budget.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre published a letter laying out his party’s demands on Monday, which most notably called for Ottawa to keep the deficit under $42 billion.
Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) warned the nation is headed for a “sharply” increased deficit of up to $68.5 billion by year-end, calling the figures “definitely a cause for concern.”
According to the PBO’s latest report, interest charges on the debt alone will cost taxpayers over $55 billion this year. That’s more than the federal government transfers to provinces annually for healthcare.
Additionally, annual debt interest charges are projected to cost Canadians $82.4 billion by the end of the decade.
Get ready for the heavily subsidized Canadian Liberal legacy media to start nattering on about the cost of another election so soon after the elbows up scam they just ran. Whatever the cost Canada heeds a government for Canadians not for the Liberal elites and their French Canadian separatists buddies who have drained billions of taxpayer $$$$ into their back pockets over the last 10 years. Nine months into the Mr. Carndeaau experiment and we have nothing but more debt and less jobs. The mush loved Mr. Carndeau darling of legacy media has turned out to be less ethical than the last CCP representative called PM. His address last night to his caucus and Oddawa university students rather than to real Canadians where he said Canada's economy is doing relatively well proves we need an election and fast.
THE UK WARNED US WHAT A TRAIN WRECK CARNEY IS.