Isn't immigration already coming down rapidly? Aren't the most unpopular taxes already being cut, like the carbon tax? Tougher on crimes by injecting more into police departments? Police spending is already the biggest budget item across all Canadian cities, especially Montreal at ~18%. Second biggest is interest payments on their debt. Montreal spends ~16% of its budget on interest alone.
Deficit spending is clearly a bad thing. Using more natural resources is probably the only thing that can help in the short term. As for the handouts, are you referring to the 2021 handouts that everyone got from the government? Like most countries did? Current handouts basically go to seniors (the second biggest budget item at the federal level), and a tiny amount to EI and other special cases. Seniors also consume the most in medical services so net net they are the biggest budget item at the federal level. Carbon credit handouts essentially cancel each other out. That said, the operating costs at the federal level have sky-rocketed, on paper it's the biggest budget item. Canadians could do with fewer CRA agents, and a number of other things but it likely won't fix the ~80B CAD deficit blowout once the capital gains inclusion rate gets rolled back. PP wants to fully cut CBC funding, which currently gets a total of $1B CAD. Just another $79B CAD if he succeeds.
How much does Quebec receive in transfer payments per capita? How does that compare to transfers per capita in other provinces? Imagine a scenario where Canada dissolves and each province becomes their own country, they now keep all of the income tax that would otherwise go to the federal level. How do their finances look in that case?
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