Ahead of an important fiscal update this week, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is demanding Prime Minister Mark Carney cap the federal deficit at $31 billion, in part by eliminating big ticket items like a major rail project and the gun buyback program.
“We should have no deficit,” Poilievre wrote in a letter to Carney. “And if I were Prime Minister right now, we would be on track to achieving that. But your Liberal government has made that impossible for this year.”
The $31 billion cap Poilievre proposes is what the former Trudeau government projected the deficit to be for the 2026-27 fiscal year when it tabled the 2024 fall economic update.
While I believe the opposition party should challenge everything, that doesn’t mean attacking everything.
Other ways to challange:
This bill is good, but have you considered adding/removing X.
Why has Canada gone Y direction when we have seen outcome Z from doing Y internationally.
Why is Canada going Y direction when we have also seen internationals do W.
But that doesn’t sell headlines
Or rile up Conservatives frothing at the mouth.