IHender#CanPoli #FederalBudget2025 #Poilievre has already come up with a snappy slogan about Con abstentions in the Budget vote:
"Two will do."
#CanPoli #FederalBudget2025 Good ol' #NDP! "The better part of valour is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life."
Also an old poem from Pogo:
"He who fights when all have fled
Walks with hero's mighty tread.
But he who fights then runs away
Lives to run another day."
On #CBC, both Chantal Hebert and Andrew Coyne agree this "transformational/generational" #FederalBudget2025 has been vastly overhyped. As Coyne says, looks like a typical LIberal budget with a few spending cuts. Then Althia Raj weighs in to say it looks a lot like a Harper government budget. Also adds that it's going to be dificult for progressive parties to support this. So perhaps at least we can drop the "Brave New World" rhetoric and hyperbole in talking about this.
I hear on #CBC that the #NDP is going to think about the #FederalBudget2025, at least over night. It seems they see the Budget like the curate's egg: parts of it are excellent. I do think there's a certain irony (especially if you're a Mel Watkins fan) to such a painfully obvious "waffle."
#FEderalBudget2025 #CanPoli Just heard a commentator on CBC say that the days of big new transfers to provinces are over. If that's true, all the Fedss need to do if #OnPOil tries to criticize is cite #DougFord and his skills development slush fund ($10-million to an "adult entertainment club" ! ) IF you cab=n afford that, you dn;t need federal money... case closed.
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#FederalBudget2025 #CanPoli OF the 40,000 civil service positions that are supposed to be cut over five years, I wonder how many will end up being filled by temporary/contract staff (who somehow don't count)?
#FederalBudget2025 #CanPoli My cyncial self wonders WTF a "generational" budget would look like, and also WTF "generational" means in this context. I know it sounds good, but it's as meaningful as when pundits bloviate about a politician's "legacy".
We've heard a lot of speculation about this Budget calling for "sacrifice". I'll wait and see who gets called on to fulfill this glorious role. I'm betting it's not those who enjoy capital gains.
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#7News #ameliabrace #Channel7 #FederalBudget2025 #MarkRiley #MichaelUsher
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