Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to cut government spending and cap the deficit at $31 billion, a level announced in former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s last fiscal update, ahead of the government’s release of its spring economic update.
Poilievre sent a letter to Carney on April 26 laying out the Conservatives’ demands for the government’s upcoming fiscal update on April 28. The Tory leader said that despite the Carney government’s promise to spend less, the federal deficit has doubled in less than a year.
“You promised to shrink the bureaucracy, but in your first 11 months as Prime Minister, it grew by 7.4 per cent,” Poilievre said in the letter. “Consultant spending is up too, and far from spending less, the overall cost of day-to-day operating spending is up 9.1 per cent in under a year.”…