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Originally Posted by DJones

Cutting budgets like this without policy change is bad form imo. It just inevitably makes the process worse. Some of these look like one year adjustments to the norm, hard to tell without looking at the department financials directly but the idea doesn't change.

If you want to cut CRA's budget by that much you better be making taxes a lot simpler. Otherwise what are you cutting? You aren't cutting mid managers by that amount. You cutting the amount of reviews? You cutting court battles? Just slap an AI sticker onto the problem and say problem solved will likely be it.

Just start slashing whole departments. Change how the process is done so you do not need the department at all. I'm guessing this philosophy is the last remnants of the Trudeau faction. It seems counter to Carney's ideas. He can't be this short sighted. Just scrap the regional economic departments. Just poof they're gone. Provinces do not need to send money to the feds so they feds can decide how they can give the money back to the provinces.

This poor logic is all over the Liberals right now. Lets create a backdoor shortcut to enable companies to bypass the bad policy on infrastructure projects. Just change the bad policy. Infrastructure deals and negotiations shouldn't be made in backrooms with who knows what negotiations behind them.

Sorry what?