Commentary
Gosh. That was fast. Problem solved. A spokesperson for the finance minister says his call for across-the-board cuts based on finding efficiencies is “a long-term transformation of government.” And here some of us thought it meant a long-term slog through inertia and perverse incentives past the bones of umpteen failed efforts to trim fat instead of cutting programs.
Whatever it is, it will skip blithely past the welfare state. The same spokescrat promised no cuts to social programs or transfers to the provinces used primarily to fund social programs. Which is where almost all spending goes, directly or to administer same. So what of these fabled efficiencies?…