Why Have A Budget – Keep Your Trash – Attacks Ex Again
The real reason governments can’t balance their budgets?
We’re trying to fund 21st-century expectations with 20th-century tax systems.
Canada’s recent federal and provincial budgets share two defining features: enormous deficits and no credible plan to eliminate them.
Last fall, Ottawa posted a deficit of $78.3 billion. This spring, provinces such as Alberta, Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia added tens of billions more to the national debt. Governments defend these shortfalls as necessary — to build infrastructure, strengthen health care, provide tax relief, and respond to a more dangerous and volatile world shaped by Donald Trump’s threats of tariffs and even annexation.
Those explanations are politically useful. But they’re not the real story.
The deeper truth is that balanced budgets have become… well, impossible.
https://toddhirsch.com/the-real-reason-governments-cant-balance-their-budgets/
Canadians responsible for $2.3 trillion in government debt
The Carney government plans to table its long-awaited federal budget on Nov. 4. In the summer, Prime Minister Carney announced billions of dollars in new spending that could push this year’s federal deficit above $90 billion, which would add significantly to the federal debt.
Indeed, the federal government, and the provincial governments, have racked up mountains of debt over the past decade and a half, with no end in sight.
According to a recent study, combined federal and provincial government net debt (total debt minus financial assets) nearly doubled (inflation-adjusted) from $1.2 trillion in 2007/08 to a projected $2.3 trillion at the end of 2024/25.
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/canadians-responsible-23-trillion-government-debt
Trump slaps tariffs on Canadian ‘trash trucks.’ How much garbage is being sent to the U.S.?
The new tariffs have received support from Michigan Senate hopeful Mike Rogers, who has been vocal in his opposition to importing waste from Canada for decades
On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump removed 50 per cent tariffs on 22 Canadian goods. But he added tariffs to 100 more, including municipal waste — meaning garbage from households and businesses.
The move has been backed by Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers, who has spent decades raising his concerns about Canadian garbage imports. Speaking on stage with Trump at a rally in Port Huron on Sunday, Rogers accused Canada of sending “truck after truck after truck loaded with their trash into our state.”
Alberta Premier Smith tells UCP separatists to toe pro-Canada line or find new party
Alberta premier to take questions after referendum
Smith says she now considers separation to be a dead issue in Alberta and there will be no more such votes as long as she is premier.
Kelowna man accused of attacking ex-wife 30 minutes after bail release freed again
A Kelowna man accused of assaulting his ex-wife just 30 minutes after being released on bail for another alleged attack on her is out of custody again.
The man was first arrested Sept. 19 on allegations that he pushed his wife to the ground and choked her to the verge of unconsciousness. A neighbour called police after hearing screaming and yelling.