Justin Trudeau wants to buy his re-election. But at what cost?
For a week, the Trudeau government has been in its element.
He announces.
Billions here and there, new programs, new structures…
We lose the thread, but no matter, the objective is not so much what we announce, but rather to give the perception of a government in motion and justify its presence.
Migraine
Let’s summarize the last few weeks.
The Trudeau government is creating new programs (housing, food, teeth, medicine, etc.), financed with borrowed money, which are fueling an already stratospheric deficit, in which it has no expertise, which are in fields powers that are not its own, that the provinces generally do not want, while it underfunds some of its primary missions such as Defense and Foreign Affairs.
Try to find the logic…
The result is visible from miles around: these hastily announced programs will turn into administrative disasters. Or will fall into oblivion.
Dental insurance, for example, already creates cavities. Two parallel systems are slowly being created between that of Quebec and Ottawa. Same cause, same consequence: it will be exactly the same thing for the housing and food programs. A regime of paperwork and mutual paralysis.
The Trudeau government is following the “after me, the flood” strategy here, not good governance.
To continue its headlong rush, the support of the NDP is necessary. And as a bonus, this allows him to trap Pierre Poilievre.
Every new expense comes with a new question for Poilievre: will you cut this expense?
Clean your stable
However, the Trudeau government has plenty of work to do in its own stable.
However, he prefers to create a diversion and make us look elsewhere, hoping that this elsewhere is less dirty and embarrassing.
In Ottawa, a huge public service continues to form, a counter-model of rigorous management, which, like the Universe, is constantly expanding. We can blame the Legault government for a historic deficit, but what is happening in Ottawa is much more worrying.