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Pierre Poilievre checked Carney’s budget against the Conservatives’ demands: cut gas prices 20 cents a litre ($1,200 a family) by scrapping federal pump taxes, cut waste, and keep the election promise to lower the debt-to-GDP ratio. Instead, gas taxes are set to rise, spending is up $150 billion, and the promise is broken. “The Prime Minister will add $765 billion to our national debt, the single biggest borrowing binge in Canadian history—more than Trudeau, more than during COVID” That binge means higher inflation and interest rates now, higher taxes later. The fastest-growing item in the budget is not health care, seniors, or security. “It is interest on the national debt.” Roughly $60 billion a year will go “to bankers and bondholders instead of nurses and doctors” Rosemary Barton's take was surprisingly blunt: Poilievre is attacking the government for increasing the deficit, the debt, and debt servicing “that, of course, all of us will have to pay over time.” We are all going to pay for Carney’s overspending @PierrePoilievre