National Post- The first Carney spending numbers are out, and they’re as bad Trudeau’s
The Main Estimates suggest that message of restraint fell on deaf ears in Ottawa: total budgeted spending is scheduled to rise 7.75 per cent to $486.9 billion this fiscal year across 130 federal organizations (compared to last year’s Main Estimates). The government will ask Parliament to vote on $222.9 billion of spending measures, a 14 per cent increase on last year’s estimates.
The most egregious spending appears to be on consultants.
Those who cannot control their behaviour must control others’ behaviour.
Those who cannot control their spending must spend others’ spending.
Which are inversely proportional to each other.
When those who can’t control their behaviour or their spending, their behaviour becomes out of control.
Welcome to the dystopic despotism of specious socialist, where spending is investing and freedom is our slavery.
Billions and billions for friends of the Liberal party.
Ivison’s an idiot and he was a big fan of PM Fagboy.
“if the government attempts any sleight of hand it will be called out by the auditor general’s office and Parliamentary Budget Office”
Gee, that’ll learn them.
Government’s purpose is existence.
Nothing else matters.
If you want to see where the money goes, the Public Accounts are published at:
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-services-procurement/services/payments-accounting/public-accounts/2024.html
Volume 3, Part 6 is most interesting. It lists the ‘Transfer Payments’, which are payments made ‘without expectation of consideration in return’. That is: given away. The total is $270,157,527,025. or about 1/2 of all spending! Admittedly, 2/3rds of the 270 consists of statutorily mandated payments, such as pensions, health etc. BUT roughly $95 Billion is just given away, by ‘unelected bureaucrats’. Take a look here:
https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/recgen/cpc-pac/2024/vol3/ds6/index-eng.html
Couldn’t help but ROTFLMAO when I heard part of Carney’s latest speech after the Throne Speech and Trump’s offer of sheltering under the Golden Dome. To paraphrase what Carney said was a throwback to MacKenzie King’s famous speech about “Conscription if necessary, but not necessary conscription.” Carnet said that “We’ll have co-operation if necessary but not necessarily co-operation,” well son of a gun we’re going back to the future under Mr. Carney. I wonder what other policies the Liberals will re-cycle.
I predict bags of cash under tables.
The most egregious spending appears to be on consultants.
Quell surprise. Precisely what happens when a bunch of low IQ idiots are elected. It’s a good thing that breathing is autonomic, ’cause they’re too stupid to breathe.
“Consultants” also known as “Friends of the Liberal Party”. Lots of them and they lobby everyone to get more corrupt Liberals elected.
PS: The $95 Billion which is just GIVEN AWAY amounts to something in the order of $3,000 PER PERSON in Canada. You each pay taxes, HST, gas, etc. etc. to support some bureaucrat who gives away $3,000 to some bocci club in Woodbridge or whatever. (And *his* salary is on top of that!)
I don’t have the energy (and maybe not the expertise) to comb through the Public Accounts site , but I often wonder about CBC (English). Nobody watches it on TV (like around 4% get their news there). If we were to disband CBC English and privatize the CBC French so the government would not have to pay their employees and executive bonuses (they could live on advertising revenue and possibly a voluntary fan club fee).
On the CBC English side, the government could offer the whole package for sale on the open market. There are a lot of well equipped broadcast sites and lots of real estate in prime locations. The package has to be worth some big bucks that would go back to the government, plus there would be all that savings in annual grants. I have never seen an analysis of this. We need to see it!
the Department of National Defence ($33.9 billion);
the Department of Indigenous Services ($25.2 billion);
the Department of Employment and Social Development ($13.1 billion);
the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs ($13.0 billion); and
the Department of Health ($10.3 billion).
Those are the big 5 after Debt payments at $49+billion.
One should be asking how much overlap there is between Indigenous Services and Crown Indigenous Relations, and how much could be saved by eliminating the overlap and bureaucrats involved.
Meet the new Canadian people. Just as stupid as the old Canadian people.