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Originally Posted by opendoor
But we're talking about the civil service, not overall spending. Obviously when you start subsidizing daycare, provide dental care to low income seniors, increase child benefits, have a growing senior population that receives generous OAS benefits, etc. then spending will rise. But spending on government staffing and operations is near historical lows relative to the size of the economy.
As for Carney, like any politician in a campaign, he's promising the moon and he won't be able to deliver on it. The idea that we can significantly reduce federal government spending without touching the things he says won't be affected (OAS, healthcare, child benefits, dental care, etc.) isn't really realistic. Everyone campaigns on finding efficiencies to do all the heavy lifting for their promises, but it never materializes.
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Yeah. In the most recent estimates for this fiscal year
https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-bo...estimates.html
Transfers (which he promised not to touch) and interest on debt (which they're obligated to pay) come to 73% of budgetary spending.
Hard to see where new money for the investments he's also planning is going to come from. That same policy doc posted above says we need $60 billion more in carbon reduction spending and a bunch of other stuff as well.