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Originally Posted by opendoor
A bit disingenuous? For one thing, it's not over 2 years, as Azure claims. that figure is based on 7 fiscal years from 2020 to 2027.
And those "non-COVID support programs" are the sum total of all new spending in the budgets, which includes things like:
-$23B in additional spending on the military
-tens of billions of dollars to support industries
-billions in infrastructure spending
-billions in compensation to residential school survivors
-natural disaster recovery costs from what happened last fall in BC.
That doesn't even get into the absurdity of trying to frame non-COVID spending (which is obviously a far more productive thing to spend money on) as somehow a bad thing.
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The argument is that spending is out of control.
The Trudeau Government likely had no control but to spend a bunch of money on COVID support, just like every other government in the world. Not sure one could fault them there, though I'm sure many things could have been done better.
But that doesn't excuse billions and billions in spending when inflation is already a major issue.
So not as 'absurd' as you think it is. Though not surprising that you fail to see that. Gotta keep spinning.
