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Cabinet ministers told to find ‘ambitious’ savings by end of summer
(www.theglobeandmail.com)
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So cuts to the public service and services to fund loans/giveaways to the private sector.
Anyone who has been through a round of layoffs recognizes this language. All it's missing is a need to find "efficiencies". Carney is looking less and less like the genius economy understander I was told he was and more and more like a bog standard orthodox Friedmanite.
That's what many of his left-leaning detractors have said. Unsurprisingly, the central banker is a dyed in the wool neoliberal who wants to trim government spending while shoveling money towards the private sector to grow the economy. Maybe wealth will finally trickle down this time. 😅
The annoying thing is that for a lot of his voters it seems like his decisions have been surprising. I'm seeing a lot of, "trust the plan," sort of comments elsewhere like this is all leading to some bait-and-switch social democratic turn. I think the Liberal campaign didn't focus on his fiscal orthodoxy and a lot of people just projected whatever they wanted him to be onto him.
I think people didn't vote for Carny as much as against PP. It's a bit sad that he is following the old playbook.
That's been the LPC strategy since the early 2000s. It works.
There is a silver lining in giving the NDP a wake-up call. Hopefully they can manage to have an actionable platform soon.
I liked Jagmeet, and the NDP platform (well what i understood of it), if i wasn't worried that PP would get in they would have gotten my vote. I did feel that he didn't stand a chance of getting in.
I did read Carney's book (values), i found it extremely difficult to read, and said a lot without saying anything. I don't think he would get my vote if not for PP.
I'd like to see a rule that any politician voted in must work in an aid camp in a warzone to be elegable for office. Or maybe spend a year as an average citizen in their country.
Jagmeet was a nice enough person, but his communication never seemed to be about making changes, only criticising the other parties. It's possible I missed the more constructive messages, but the constant tearing down in political messaging is why I don't ingest much of it. NDP would also be my choice (outside of a spoiler situation), but the default answer isn't very inspiring.
FPTP isn't the only fucked up voting issue we have though, as the vote for leader also affected so many local representatives, and I thing that's where the NDP is currently strongest. Losing local reps is a sad price for opposing a national lunatic.
I've thoughs about similar restrictions to bring high-level politicians down to Earth. Hard limits to effective income from all sources of perhaps 2.5x minimum wage. Six months of consecutive retail or food service work.
we can dream!