To stay in power a long, long time.
Dan Knight- How the Liberals Campaigned Against Austerity and Then Quietly Embraced It
Just ten weeks after the vote, the Carney government is preparing sweeping cuts, yes, cuts, to federal program spending. Departments are being told to slash 7.5% next year, rising to 10%, then 15% by 2028. So much for no austerity. So much for “protecting services.”
Francisco- Read the whole thing.
CTV- What does PM Carney’s edict to find billions in savings means for government job security?
Enough of the people want to be fooled all of the time.
“Protecting services”?
I can’t be the only one who has near zero expectations of having any type of service from the federal gov’t,
I doubt my expectations (or my respect for the gov’t) could be lower.
Some rumblings of mass civil disobedience from the UK… I shouldn’t get my hopes up for tier 2 Canada.
Some supporting journalism:
https://modernity.news/2025/07/02/professor-warns-uk-government-is-preparing-for-civil-war-using-russian-invasion-threat-as-cover/
We had rumblings of civil disobedience, see truckers convoy. Brutally suppressed by cops on horses and bureaucrats at your bank. The majority of Canadian sheep: Yay, mommy government showed them who’s boss! Carnage should just cancel parliament and get on with ruling, it is what most Canadians want, 0 responsibility. Disgusting unworthy nation deserves to fail. Shithole.
Ummmm….shouldn’t we be cheering on this application of realism? If the writer is to be believed, here’s a liberal actually applying (at least) some semblance of budget cutting. That’s a good thing, isn’t it?
Although, I have my doubts.
During the campaign, Carney specifically and concisely stated that he would, not only, continue to fund the CBC at its current rate, but he would give it a $150 Million boost. That doesn’t sound much like a cut. And the writer of this article doesn’t even, specifically, address that issue. Does anyone think the Liberals would cut funding to their media mouth piece? It’s a gear in their political apparatus. There will be no “austerity” in that arena.
Were I to make a guess, I’d suggest that the future “cuts” are merely lateral moves. Those actual decreases are going to be transferred into the Net Zero nonsense. The money will just be spent a different way. Carney’s already moved billions toward modular housing. Where’s that money coming from? That didn’t seem very austere.
I’m not buying this article. It seems naïve.
Carney is a backdoor shenaniganer.
He’s a shopping addict with two credit cards.
Obviously Liberals lie.
That’s what they do.
As for austerity, you can’t cut budgets that are 90% overweight by 7% and call that austere.
Carney may be pulling ungreased levers, but he ain’t changing the thrust of the malignant beast’s machinery.
If Carnage is making cuts, it’s for one reason only; he’s going to announce a massive green slush fund.
I think you’re right. He’s going to do some shuffling and the most popular word of the Liberal Party is going to be “subsidy”. He’s going to free up what he can and then use it to incentivize “green projects”.
Its like most of the sales online, raise the price 100% then have a sale with 15% off the whole site. He will still have a 92B deficit but all the departments will have make “huge cuts”.
I’m looking forward to the public service layoffs. Elbows up!
I hate to disappoint you, but that won’t happen. The federal civil service, and associated contractors, hangers on and grifters are the Liberal base. Carney will come in with a 35 Billion dollar deficit, with the rest of the red ink labelled as “investments” and depreciated on a really slow basis, and then they will report the deficit on a cash basis for the operating budget, eliminating depreciation as a “non cash outlay”. The depreciation rate for federal government investments, even real ones, should be 100%, as their track record on investing is abysmal.
Since the Carney has decided the best way to deal with the deficit is to engage in accounting tricks, I don’t believe that any sort of austerity will be involved, other than the possibility of shorting the provinces in the same way that the Cretin did.
He’ll short every Province except one.
Nothing will change.
Raise expectations so the usual suspects will sigh in relief when cuts don’t happen…or barely happen.
Considering Trudeau increased the size of the already bloated govt. by 40%, the Carney cuts are just window dressing. Govt. needs to be cut about 70% and MP’s take at least a 50% cut in pay. That would be a good start and show taxpayers the Liberals are serious.
Look for Carney to raise the GST back to 7%. It’s coming.
The Dan Knight substack article is very flawed and inaccurate, as Orson points out above. Despite his half hearted gestures at trimming the bloated civil service, there is no way that Carney planning to spend $100+ Billion more than Trudeau did should ever be termed “austerity”.
Carney has kept all Trudeau’s anti-prosperity, anti oil and gas rules, electric vehicle mandates and wants to spend even more than Trudeau, yet people are acting as if he is co opting Conservative policies, when he has done that only with the carbon tax reduction, which is temporary.
And he is doing it with no budget, which is authoritarian and splitting it into operating and capital budgets, to make comparisons with the past much harder. Carney plans to re-create a carbon tax, but on companies so as to dodge blame for subsequent inflation. He insists that pipelines cannot go anywhere a province disagrees, which means no pipelines can be built because he chooses not to use federal authority. Pure spendy, weasel obfuscation.
https://freditorial.substack.com/