“These are things we can’t afford not to do,” said Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland — the standard explanation from politicians about to spend other people’s money.
The PBO’s model expects a budgetary deficit of $328.5 billion, or 15 per cent of GDP, in 2020-21, which takes into account the extension of the Canada Recovery Benefit but not measures announced in last week’s throne speech. That number is lower than the $343 billion, the government indicated in its summer fiscal snapshot.
“It wouldn’t take that much in terms of new spending, or even tax cuts, for federal debt to become unsustainable,” he said. The party’s national director, Anne McGrath, told the National Post future negotiations will be aimed at making their gains permanent. “There are things that should exist during a pandemic, but also not during a pandemic,” she said.
Canada is currently being run, for better or worse, by an informal social democratic coalition, committed to income redistribution, regulation of the economy and generous social welfare provision. It is becoming impossible to look at the Liberals and NDP and say which is which.The party is lucky to have McGrath. She is a veteran of the Jack Layton years and may be able to convince Singh when there is no longer electoral advantage to moving in lockstep with the Liberals.
The CERB was meant to be replaced by a less generous program. Yet the Canada Recovery Benefit was enriched to $500 a week as part of the price for the NDP’s support in the House of Commons. That translates to $26,000 a year, the equivalent of a minimum wage job in most provinces.
Guess why
Are you afraid of a united left coming after your money?
One wears socks proudly
Well we all know why Sophie left him , he has a new lover sone serious bromance
What!! Old news!! NDP, Liberal party, Green, BLOC are all the same and the CPC has little daylight between the Liberals too. These politicians are as bad as I have ever seen. It’s true what my parents used to say, ‘they are all the same.’ And that’s the truth.
they should all be fired AND kicked out of this country and put on an ice flow. the people need to go now
Justin Singh & Jagmeet Trudeau really let down Canadians
They have the same leader and it's not God
Liberals have become NDP. Ongoing spending out of control, especially outside of Canada . Total bullshit, I never have and never will vote for either party because I care about Canada and future generations .
NDP = LIBERALS should be the title.
Last election only 16% of voters went for the NDP. Libs lost the popular vote to CPC by 1.2%. majority of voters didn't go for the NDP platform and surely not for an Lib NDP alliance of drunken spending, muzzling of Parliament to ram an illegitimate agenda. We need an election
Singh will get thrown to the curb ( not worthy of a blue box) when loverboy Trudeau is done with him😷
These liberals have never stood for anything except power, they will do anything to keep it, this should surprise no one.
They are full out snuggling under the same socialist bed sheet.
sugartymefarm And here it is... ‘Canada Recovery Benefit was enriched to $500 a week as part of the price for the NDP’s support in the House of Commons. That translates to $26,000 a year, the equivalent of a minimum wage job in most provinces’ selloutsingh LiberalismIsTheRealPandemic
I think it's quite simple to tell them apart. Libs work for the corporations. New Dems don't mostly, except for maybe the natural gas companies.
No John this is what we call democracy it is where two parties come together for the common good. The CONservatives may want to give it a try. We all know Quebec doesn't play nice with anyone in Canada so that is expected.
Maybe that secret meeting he had last year came with some concessions, a few crumbs here and there. Something is fishy. On election night he tried to enter a polling station and was asked to leave, all caught on film. Job security over honesty.
This merger will create the MPC - Marxist Party of Canada
Jimmy Dhaliwal is jagmeetheads real name !
Bird5Ca More rats feasting on Canada's carcass.
They should have merged decades ago. The NDP is just the no-name Liberal brand.
I don't see any difference in Globalist CPC, Lib, NDP, Green. Only choice Canadians have is Canada/Canadians First party
I guess you would be disturbed if the left united in Canada. We’d see the end of the reform party.
To me there’s no difference except for their party colors both liberals and ndp will spend as much as they need to for votes
They are the same party and brand
Corruption is killing our country and democracy
It’s becoming? 🙄
One comment was enough for me. 52% of CDNs think govt spending more money will help the economy. If that's the case we should have the strongest and healthiest economy in the G7. We don't. Not even close. The LPC/NDP spending while not paying the bills. And the bills are coming.
towjoe theJagmeetSingh stop making Canadians pay to keep Trudeau in power.
We can't tell red caps and conservatives apart either
Horseshit
Can’t because he has no respect for anyone .
On a similar note, it’s also becoming impossible to tell Conservatives and uncaring, blockheaded fascists apart, and their implications are exponentially more unsettling.
Great suit, theJagmeetSingh.
The liberals have essentially assimilated the NDP
wow, what about the Heritage Party and The Progressive Conservative Party? they are the reason we in such a s**t sandwich as a nation
Rockchip77 Exactly correct. The liberal party was high jacked (and allowed to willingly) by the NDP.
Seriously, Jagmeet is just a liberal under the guise of a NDP 'name only'. Jagmeet is a traitor as much as the liberals. I believe all the NDP party are standing beside Trudeau. SO they are a USELESS PARTY. Poor Layton after all his HARD work, Jagmeet through it all away. USELESS
It’s impossible to tell Trump and the The National Post apart and the implications are unsettling !
It is ?
Only to a conservative.
You've only just noticed this? Canada is run by radicals now and will be for evermore.
shankarita NDP need to re-evaluate what they really stand for and they need a new leader. Seriously.
Oh it's easy to tell the difference. Liberals are the two talking backstabbing deceitful corrupt self-serving party they've always been and the NDP are a bunch of idiots
Given you are an American owned publication I’m assuming that’s a typo and you meant Democrats and Republicans.
Liberals are whatever they need to be to get elected and will do anything to stay in power. They don’t care about budgets, it’s not their money they are spending. It’s a winning formula!
It is easy: both are dimwitted.
U mean canadians actual getting a center left government they voted for
It's becoming impossible to tell the difference between Canadian Conservatives and American Republicans. That's the REAL unsettling reality.
Canadians have selected a progressive social democratic or communist party to govern . This party includes a prime minister who is personally unethical, personally corrupt, marginally intelligent and globally regarded as an incompetent fool . The results lie at the votersfeet
who gives a shit if they are doing things to help ordinary Canadians. what's the point of having political parties anyway. way more accomplished when people work for the common good.
OMG a non ass kissing article about the Liberal government... have I suddenly died and just cant tell?
What is the different you ask? Liberals bend over and the NDP kiss their asses...
More crap from Ivison. The truth is that Singh has acted much more like a Con than a Lib for the last several months. Where has Ivison been so that he has not seen that fact?
76% of Canadians voted for one of them.
Hard to tell the difference between the three main parties. They might talk a different game but the overall result is the same.
As I was saying, theJagmeetSingh is just a puppet played with by JustinTrudeau! Jagmeet Singh knows he will never lead a NDP Canada and Canadians (JustinTrudeau also knows this fact!) so he allies up with his usual, entitled Justin Trudeau, begging for & being fed scraps!
The implications are unsettling for right-wing white supremacists who are inexorably losing their hold on political, economic, and social hegemonies, privilege, and power. On the other hand NDP and the Liberals want to share these powers with all Canadians. Thank you for reading.
Neither party has any respect for the taxpayers pocket books. Justin Trudeau is proving that to be true in spades. cdnpoli
So isn't this an opportunity for O'Toole? Com'on, giddy up and get that party to centre.
Once you tax the billionaires - oh and they’ll only let you do that once before they high tail their money out of Zcanada. Then who are you going to tax. It’s inevitably the mifkdlke class because that’s where all the money is.
One has a leader that had he had a different last name and heritage would have been in jail years ago, the other has a leader that is willing to ignore this in order to have a whiff of what it is like to have power.
Don’t count out the Tool yet
Jag had a chance to stand up for something and all he got was the taint that comes with being associated with the Liberals. cdnpoli
Socialists are taking over thanks to support from the naive, inexperienced and outright stupid. Canada is in trouble.
Yeah both the Liberals and NDP voted for sick pay while the Coronavirus sickened Conservative Leader voted against sick pay. Seems like only Liberals and NDP care about the health and livelihood of Canadians.
Any student of history will understand this is how the Liberals have always worked. They take the center then move to the left or right as it benefits them. It's how they have managed to govern Canada for so long. They have no soul.
Yes, now that you mention it Beavis and Butt-Head do seem interchangeable.
FYATHYRIO Just shows theJagmeetSingh is TOTALLY OUT OF TOUCH!
Do tell
Both NDP and Liberals want to become communist. It’s obvious.
Problem is all the party's are becoming too much alike. Not just NDP, and the Liberals. A Canadian does not have much of a choice, which once was a great part of its democracy with several party's and several idea's.
That was the Trudeau plan all along...move hard left and absorb the NDP and make it redundant.
They have been sleeping together long enough - they should marry. They can become Liberal Democrats and the Liberals will no longer be closet socialists and the NDP can finally drop 'New' from their name - a win-win
I said back before the Fed election that a vote for the NDP was a vote for the Liberals, sort of makes the NDP PARTY redundant in my musings
Not all brown people look alike
Anyone who can’t tell these two very different parties apart is either woefully ignorant regarding Canadian politics, or a liar. 🤦♂️
Left and Leftist
For who?
We need a two party system....green, NDP and libs are all “liberals”
Other than the CrazyCons, name another federal party on the right.
Cry more.
He didn't hire more government employees. In Canada the government plans on running everything. If you don't work for the government your a write off. They don't need you alive or your 'vote,' which none of them need.
Been that way for 50 years.
There’s literally no difference except in name.
Can't tell Reform from Cons Oh, they merged lamebrain
Conservatives and Liberal are becoming impossible to tell the difference between them and Republicans.
The NDP will either have to go hard left or disappear, there is no way they can win a battle on a redefined NDP/liberal brand.
Unite the left!
lol do all national post columnists have a severe case of brain worms?
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It's becoming impossible to tell Conservatives and Republicans apart, and the implications are unsettling.
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