Trudeau government unveils plans to cut $500 million in spending
Trudeau government unveils plans to cut $500 million in spending
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government unveiled details of its plan to tighten government spending Thursday — and not all departments are feeling the same impacts.
How about stop subsidizing fossil fuel, or Air Canada, or Bell/Rogers?
And the meat industry:
https://nationrising.ca/information-subsidies/
Its disgusting that such an unethical industry is propped up by tax dollars to the tune of billions.
Better yet seize air Canada back and take the telecom towers we paid to build
How about nationalize our O&G, airline, and telecom?
Deep defense cuts, now? That's certainly one way to approach a destabilising great power neighbour, a new cold war, and an ongoing peer conflict in Ukraine.
Right after they told their allies they're committed to the NATO spending targets
You only need to look at the CO2 targets we've committed to to see how much Canada's commitment to anything means.
If the US continues to destabilize, we're fucked anyway. Any aid we can provide to Ukraine is going to be us allocating funds to buy American weapons that we then ship off to Ukraine.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The government said the cost-cutting initiative excluded agents of Parliament and small organizations with budgets under $25 million a year.
In the 2023 budget, released in April, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said promised reductions in government spending would "represent savings of $15.4 billion over the next five years."
The government's supplementary estimates, meanwhile, give DND an additional one-time transfer of $1.5 billion — $500 million of it for military aid to Ukraine.
"This is just the first tranche of the results relating to our spending review," Treasury Board President Anita Anand told reporters on her way into question period.
The government has for months touted its plan to rein in spending, trim travel costs and cut the sums spent on professional services by outside contractors.
"Departments were asked to review programming and operations to identify where there might be duplication, lower value for money, or misalignment with government priorities," it wrote.
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At least it aligns our fiscal policy with our current monetary policy. I wonder to what extent they are making these cuts precisely to put downward pressure on inflation, and thus encourage the central bank to reduce interest rates in the future.
The goof is cutting a lot of money out of the federal food inspection agency and nothing from the CBC.