Carney's spending promises will require 'significant cuts' to the public service: PBO
Carney's spending promises will require 'significant cuts' to the public service: PBO
Yves Giroux says a public service cap alone will not be enough to pay for Prime Minister Mark Carney's tax cut and defence spending.
The Ottawa Citizen is American owned media pretending to be Canadian, infiltrating Canadian culture and politics.
Ah yes. Conservative in all the ways except name.
The headline is misleading because the Ottawa Citizen is owned by conservative fanboys, PostMedia. Carney promised a balanced budget but his budget guy said that's not going to happen since making good on his campaign promises is more costly than initially expected and balancing would require a budget cut. They're not doing that. That's just taken out of context for the headline.
But in an interview, Giroux said that the promise of a cap on the public service will not be enough to mitigate Carney’s additional spending. He said he expects higher deficits, and as a result, higher debt servicing charges over the next few years.
Emphasis mine.
“To balance or to pay for these types of additional spending there would need to be severe cuts to the public service, significant cuts,” Giroux said.
There would need to be cuts to balance the budget. That's why they're not going to balance the budget.
“To balance or to pay for these types of additional spending there would need to be severe cuts to the public service, significant cuts,” Giroux said.
This is a lie.
It's worse than a lie really. Behind this claim are two decisions that the Liberals have made in advance so that they can present this with the frame that cuts are "necessary":
- The spending is required, despite not having it in the budget.
- The budget may not be increased through taxing the rich.
In other words, Carney wants a pony and rather than make his rich friends pay for it, he's going to screw everyone else.
So yeah, conservatives.
From the Toronto Star:
Hike in defence spending could mean cuts in other areas, Mark Carney warns
This is a bad news source.
I'm not saying the article is inaccurate but Postmedia isn't even worth fact checking. Therefore not worth reading.
Is that to pay for military and arming race?
They're going to avoid public service cuts by taxing the very rich, right?