Mark Carney has ordered the government to spend $33 billion more without parliamentary approval. Is this a fiscal moderate? Is this the end of the world as we know it, or is this the beginning of the next one?
00:00:03.000Remember way back during the federal election when Mark Carney was presenting himself as a fiscal moderate?
00:00:09.320You might not remember. It was way, way back in the day, like last week.
00:00:14.100He was doing that whole thing that we need to reduce spending but increase investment.
00:00:19.160Well, I guess by increase investment, he just meant spend a lot of money the exact same way Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did.
00:00:26.440But remember, the economic advisor to Justin Trudeau for the last five years of Justin Trudeau's time in office was Mark Carney.
00:00:35.720So really, this isn't even Mark Carney emulating Trudeau.
00:00:39.200It's Mark Carney emulating Mark Carney because obviously Mark Carney was making all the fiscal decisions for Trudeau from 2020 onward.
00:00:48.420So Carney, in an order in council, which is basically a prime ministerial executive order, is going to spend $33 billion more without parliamentary oversight or authorization.
00:01:02.480Usually what you do in Canada is you pass a big budget at the beginning of the year, and then that is your money to achieve your goals for the next year until you pass another budget in the following year.
00:01:13.540What Mark Carney is doing here is basically, before passing his own budget, or going off of the previous liberal budget, he's just giving himself another $33 billion, saying that he can do it because we're in a crisis of some kind.
00:01:28.620I'm going to get into the exact text of this order in council in just a second, but I just want to remind you guys, if you like my political coverage, make sure to like this video, subscribe to the channel, leave a comment on what you think about the situation.
00:01:41.080I always do like seeing what people think. And now let's get into it. We will actually be reading the official text, so don't take my word for it. You can even look it up yourself. It's PC number 2025-0467.
00:01:54.940It was released just back on the 2nd of May, so this was very, very soon after he became the prime minister, like he was elected prime minister again.
00:02:05.620And he says, whereas the president of the Treasury Board reports that there is no appropriation for the payment of the sums set out in the schedule, amounting in the aggregate of $33,102,675,499.
00:02:23.420And the appropriate ministers have reported that the payment of these sums is urgently required for the public good.
00:02:30.920So we are being told that this does not need to go through parliament and get oversight by the various MPs and have authorization by parliament because it is urgently required.
00:02:44.080And he says, and whereas parliament is not in session and there is no other appropriation under which the payment of these sums may be made.
00:02:52.260Well, you could just call parliament into session right now and then pass it and then go back on to break.
00:02:59.960He could do that. He doesn't want to do that.
00:03:02.600But in this last sentence, before it translates over to the French, it says,
00:03:06.900Therefore, Her Excellency, the governor general in council on the recommendation of the president of the Treasury Board under section 31 of the Financial Administration Act,
00:03:16.920directs that a special warrant be prepared to be signed by the governor general authorizing the payment effective May 16th, 2025,
00:03:25.300of the sum set out in the schedule amounting in the aggregate of $33,102,000,000, you know, and so on and so forth to be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund.
00:03:41.680The idea that this man is a fiscal moderate is stupid and people should have known it during the election.
00:03:47.600One, again, the man was Trudeau's economic advisor.
00:03:52.500He was the one who thought the HST-GST tax freeze was a good idea and had basically helped push Canada into a $62 billion deficit last year
00:04:02.880that Chrystia Freeland basically resigned over it being so bad.
00:04:06.640And then Chrystia Freeland, somehow still part of his government, is happy to go along with Mark Carney,
00:04:12.020who is now going to consistently have deficits over $60 billion for the next four years.
00:04:18.440You can't make it up, but don't worry.
00:04:21.160He said we're going to spend less and invest more, which means that this is all perfectly above board spending.
00:05:09.080I would say just cut their taxes, just cut corporate taxes, personal income taxes and all that,
00:05:13.780and everything will be better automatically.
00:05:15.740But if you want to go down the subsidy route, if you want to give out emergency funding, sure, you can do that in an order in council.
00:05:23.880But you really think this $33 billion is mostly stuff that we need right now?
00:05:29.560Or is it a giant omnibus pork barrel executive order that allows him to basically push out a bunch of money without getting any scrutiny from parliament?
00:05:39.400And it's really difficult to scrutinize them after they've already spent it.
00:05:43.220Yeah, you can maybe try and force them to answer questions in committee meetings that the NDP will allow it.
00:05:48.700But it ends up just becoming questions in question period you can ask.
00:05:52.220You can't really hold their feet to the fire as they're trying to push this through parliament,
00:05:55.820and you can hold them up and make them ask questions.
00:05:58.220You have to now do a bunch of hindsight work going after them for spending that's already gone by
00:06:04.280that you don't think is responsible or justified.
00:06:07.360And as we go through here, and again, I don't know why does the CBC need $178 million right now?
00:06:13.100Make another crappy gem show with five washed-up comedians writing five bad jokes that we didn't need to hear?
00:08:18.240And the thing is that this is the pattern of how Mark Carney acts in office.
00:08:22.340We're going to have a not very transparent and not very fiscally responsible government.
00:08:28.220But because I guess he's standing up to Donald Trump, which he isn't really even doing, I guess he's a good prime minister in some people's eyes.
00:08:35.780I'm actually going to try and make a video at some point soon here in the future going over all these people who are mad at the Conservatives for challenging vote counts in some of the really close ridings where they could flip it from liberal to conservative.
00:08:47.500Liberal influencers are very mad at the Conservatives for doing that.
00:08:50.260But then the Liberals trying to flip conservative ridings where the Conservatives are ahead narrowly to them, that is the epitome of democracy.
00:09:17.660One person making a mistake could have that flip from one side to the other.
00:09:22.020But it's just the sort of double standards that we're dealing with in Canada right now, where if you are conservative and you do something, it's very bad.
00:09:29.800And if you're a Liberal and you do something, it's, no, at least normal.
00:09:33.160If Polyev got in and just started doing orders in council, you would have the Liberals screaming about it.
00:09:39.700In fact, Carney attacked Polyev for wanting to use the Notwithstanding Clause to keep multiple murderers in prison.
00:09:45.880So you don't get to serve all of your sentences for murdering 25 people all at once and only be in prison for 25 years.
00:09:52.960You've got to serve them one after another consecutively because of how horrible your crime was.
00:09:58.920Carney called that, like, authoritarian, or that was an irresponsible use of the Notwithstanding Clause, and that's not how our justice system is supposed to work.
00:10:09.440Sorry, but is Parliament not supposed to be consulted when you're spending $33 billion?
00:10:16.420Again, who's going to call them up for this?
00:10:18.020I know there are some people who are going to call them up in the media, but it's not going to be any of the Liberal cheerleaders.
00:10:50.060Because there's a bunch of those guys out there still making that claim, and it's still wrong.
00:10:55.800Like, you have Viva Fry saying, well, I said if Polyev didn't go on Rogan and he didn't go on PBD and all these other podcasts, he was going to lose.