Preston Manning: Canada needs an alternative to Carney's one

When the Carney government’s honeymoon is over, and its missteps on a variety of fronts become more evident, the search will begin in earnest for “alternatives.” Looking ahead, what might such alternatives be?

On the fiscal front, the recent federal budget gets off on the wrong foot by attributing Canada’s economic woes to major global events and Donald Trump’s tariffs, without in any way acknowledging the consequences of a decade of mismanagement by the Trudeau regime. The budget also still contains references to net zero on the climate change front, a Carney fixation. What an alternative budget might look like is a discussion for the weeks ahead, but it might begin by calling for a federal commitment to an alternative net zero: Federal Expenditures Minus Federal Revenues to Equal Zero b