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This is why Mark Carney needed the numbers he got. A functional majority (helped by floor-crossers who abandoned the voters who elected them) means almost zero real accountability for three more years. Committees can be shut down when the questions get uncomfortable. Debate gets limited. The government marks its own homework. And that is exactly the setup required for the spending machine. Every week another billions-dollar announcement. More “investment.” More “assets.” More money funneled through Crown corporations, special funds, and capital projects that don’t fully hit the deficit the way ordinary people understand debt. The PBO has already warned that real cash borrowing over five years is projected at $733 billion while reported cumulative deficits are only $333 billion. The gap is deliberately parked off the books that make the headlines look less ugly. Accrual accounting lets them call spending an asset instead of a liability. Interest payments—the fastest-growing federal expense—still have to be paid by taxpayers either way. No COVID. No genuine national emergency. Just permanent crisis rhetoric about a “dark and dangerous world” while domestic results get worse and the debt load grows. With majority control, there is almost no one left in the House who can force a hard stop or real transparency. My nine grandchildren are the ones who will live with the interest bill, the higher taxes or the service cuts that eventually follow. When a government can announce new spending faster than the independent budget officer can track the true cash cost, and when parliamentary scrutiny can be managed or delayed, the system is no longer restraining power. It is enabling it. Wake up. The accounting is creative. The power is concentrated. The trajectory is not sustainable. Name it. Demand better. #cdnpoli