The theme seems to be “reduce operating spending, increase capital spending”. We’ll see how that will blow over with the opposition.
The theme seems to be “reduce operating spending, increase capital spending”. We’ll see how that will blow over with the opposition.
The budget was designed to pass.
That means that it was pathetically compromising towards environmental protections, worker protections, a strong stance against the US, etc., etc.
In other words, it’s pretty much a fucking milquetoast mess with nothing good.
That’s Carney through and through though.
I mean, that’s how a lot of Canadian politics works… “passed because no one really hated it”…
That’s how all politics works. You can’t make everyone happy, so you just try to make every less unhappy.