The Risk in Raising Alarm: Could Poilievre’s Deficit Attacks Backfire?
An alternative impact of a big fiscal mess
At first glance, a massive federal deficit looks like a gift to Pierre Poilievre. It reinforces his central claim that Ottawa spends too much, delivers too little, and leaves Canadians worse off. Allows him to say again that Mark Carney’s government is no different than Justin Trudeau’s. But politics is rarely that simple. The other day, as I was prepa…