Looking Inside Mark Carney’s ‘Extremely Orwellian’ Austerity Budget

About this episode

The episode critiques Mark Carney's budget, questioning its classification as an investment budget amidst significant cuts and job eliminations.

Send us a note! Mark Carney is billing his first budget as an "investment budget," but with plans to eliminate 40,000 jobs in the federal public service and cut $60 billion in program spending, is this really an "investment budget" or is it an austerity budget? The 2025 federal budget gives Canadians a first look at the details behind Carney's plans to have federal departments cut 15% in spending, reduce the federal workforce by 10% and spend tens of billions of dollars on so-called "nation-b...

Topics covered

• austerity
• budget
• federal spending
• public service cuts
• political commentary

Keywords

• Mark Carney
• austerity budget
• federal budget
• job cuts
• program spending

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: federal public service, Canada

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