Taxpayers must cut through Carney’s budget spin and look at debt

What’s the most important tool used by shady financial advisers?

Complexity.

They use complexity and jargon to try to overwhelm you and sell you on something your better judgment knows you shouldn’t buy.

That’s what Prime Minister Mark Carney is doing with all his talk about splitting the federal budget into operating and capital spending.

With Carney muddying the budget waters, it’s more important than ever for Canadians to look at one number, one indicator to know what’s really going on: How fast is the debt going up?

Carney promises to “balance the operating budget by Budget 2028.”

Carney isn’t balancing squat if the debt keeps going up. And Carney plans to borrow another $60 billion in 2028.

Here’s the main issue with Carney’s accounting noise: Politicians want Canadians to thin