BETRAYED: Carney’s Cruel Budget Doubles Deficit and Declares War on Canada’s Middle Class

Carney’s first budget doubles Canada’s deficit, by the numbers

The federal government’s new budget devotes tens of billions of dollars in new spending to national defence, infrastructure and more.

Deficit to rise to C$78.3 billion, up 116% from last year

$78.3 billion: The size of this year’s federal budget deficit. The figure clocks in at almost double the projected shortfall in the government’s fiscal update almost a year ago. It’s also larger than the $68.5-billion deficit the independent Parliamentary Budget Officer projected in September.

$141.4 billion: New spending in the budget over the next five years. The total includes almost $59 billion over five years for defence, funding that does not include planned expenditures on the planned purchase of up to 12 new submarines. Another $27.3 billion over five years will pay for the government’s decision to cut the lowest income tax bracket from 15 to 14 per cent. Billions more are earmarked for infrastructure, including more than $12 billion over five years to support “strategic industries,” $5 billion over three years on hospital construction, and $4.2 billion over five years for infrastructure to promote trade, like ports and rail lines.

$58.2 billion: The amount by which Liberal government expects to curb federal spending over the next five years, through reducing funding across departments, including cuts to disability pensions for RCMP officers. The government also expects the federal civil service to shrink in three years by about 40,000 jobs – or 10 per cent – from its peak in 2023-24.

13.2 per cent: The new “effective tax rate” for businesses in Canada, after changes that include the introduction of a new “super deduction.” The policy makes changes that allow businesses investing in capital like manufacturing equipment, computers and clean energy generation to more quickly lower their tax bills. The budget argues this change helps make Canada a more attractive place to do business compared with G7 peers.

$1 trillion: The total amount of public and private sector investment that the government claims its policies will “enable” over the next five years. The total is part of the budget’s overall narrative, that the Carney government is shifting Canada’s spending power to spur businesses to invest and produce more, thereby reducing the country’s reliance on the unreliable United States and making Canadians – as Carney has said – “masters in our own home.”

BETRAYED: Carney’s Cruel Budget Declares War on Canada’s Middle Class

Forgotten taxpayers are being bled dry while the political elite look the other way.

By Eddie Hardie, Sociopolitical Commentator @ Canuck🍁Post

Hold onto your wallets, Canada. The moment we feared has arrived. Mark Carney, the anointed successor hailed as our fiscal savior, has unveiled his first budget—and it isn’t a plan for prosperity. It’s a declaration of war on the very backbone of this nation: the hard-working, tax-burdened middle class.

While the well-connected and the corporate giants are once again handed golden lifeboats, ordinary Canadians are being told to brace for impact. This isn’t just a misstep; it’s a profound and gut-wrenching betrayal of the public trust.

The Great Squeeze is Here, and It’s Targeted

Forget the vague promises of “shared sacrifice.” This budget surgically targets the wrong people. While everyday families are being crushed by the twin tsunamis of inflation and skyrocketing interest rates, Carney’s solution is to squeeze them further.

• The Carbon Tax Leviathan: The government is proceeding with its relentless, punitive carbon tax hikes, driving up the cost of everything—from the groceries in your cart to the fuel in your car. This isn’t an environmental policy; it’s a regressive wealth extraction scheme that punishes you for simply trying to live your life.

• The Economic Fantasy: They promise a “just transition” while systematically dismantling the industries that built our communities. They offer vague retraining programs while concrete, high-paying jobs in energy and manufacturing vanish overseas to countries with no such climate scruples. This isn’t a transition; it’s an economic suicide pact.

• The Debt Bomb They Ignore: Our national debt is a ticking time bomb, a staggering $1.2 trillion burden that will be shackled to our children and grandchildren. Instead of the disciplined austerity this crisis demands, we get more spending, more programs, and more debt—a fiscal arsonist pretending to be a firefighter.

A Chilling Double Standard

The most galling part? The sheer, unadulterated hypocrisy. The same political class that lectures you about your carbon footprint jets across the country on taxpayer-funded campaigns. The same corporate beneficiaries of this budget, nestled in cozy boardrooms, are shielded from the very economic pain they help create.

They have the audacity to ask a single mother in Saskatchewan to pay more for gas to heat her home, while a billionaire investor receives a lucrative green subsidy for a project that may never materialize. This isn’t equity; it’s a caste system, and Carney’s budget has drawn the line.

The Revolt is Brewing

Canadians are not fools. They see the empty shelves in the stores and feel the shrinking numbers in their bank accounts. They are tired of being the perpetual piggy bank for a government that views their hard work not as an engine of prosperity, but as a bottomless pit to be plundered.

This budget is a slap in the face to every small business owner working 80-hour weeks, every tradesperson driving a hundred kilometers to a job site, and every young family wondering if they’ll ever afford a home.

The message from Ottawa is clear: Your struggle doesn’t matter. Your sacrifice is expected. Your prosperity is negotiable.

But a revolt is brewing in the heartland. It’s a quiet, seething anger that will not remain quiet for long. If this is the future Carney and his allies envision, then they have profoundly misjudged the people they were chosen to serve. The fight for the soul of Canada begins now, and the first shot has been fired—by our own government, directly at us.

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