Liberale planen nicht, dieses Jahr ein Haushalt zu treiben, sagt Finanzminister, sagt Finanzminister

I won’t opine on the merits of not passing a budget sooner rather than later.

Champagne did a very poor job of addressing the obvious question of ‚where is the budget?‘. It isn’t like this was a question that nobody could have predicted would be asked as soon as the government indicated it wouldn’t pass a budget quickly. There should have been plenty of time to come up with a coherent explanation of the logic to pass a budget later rather than sooner.

Instead of something like ‚the government needs some time and flexibility to come up with an effective and efficient fiscal plan in a time of great change and uncertainty‘ or ‚the budget will be delayed until the government has a handle on the trajectory of tariffs‘ or whatnot instead he appears to present the idea of a delayed budget as something obvious and ’not very complicated‘.

I can only speak for myself but in the clip from 1:15 I find his response condescending as fuck. ‚We’re very clear‘. It’s not clear to me at all from his response why they’re delaying the budget and going the economic statement route, and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in that.

My other concern is that towards the end of the clip Champagne is trading **HARD** on Carneys credibility, in my opinion undeservedly. When he says ‚You will see with this Government and you’ve seen it with this Prime Minister’… allow *me* to be clear: We’ve already seen how clear ‚this government‘ and the Liberal incumbents have been. It isn’t pretty, and they were going to be bodied in the election because of it.

Carney won the election largely on the expectation that he’s going to meaningfully change the substance and style of Liberal governance. Implicit in that is a rebuke of the old style. Carney the man has credibility, until he demonstrates otherwise. Champagne and other Trudeau era ministers are going to have to work hard to **earn** credibility, and I hope that what I just saw isn’t emblematic of how Champagne is going to do that work.

They announced the cabinet yesterday, creating a budget would take what, 2-3 months? (hell, my company takes 3 months just to create a budget for next year, and we are small as hell). For many companies this year is already done.

This would mean the budget would be done just in time for September, maybe passed in October, and a budget that covers exactly 3-4 months is more useless than the paper it would be printed on, especially when everything is up in the air and nobody knows what the hell will happen with Trump.

Iron out the details with the US, and more importantly figure out moving away from Trump. Once that is a little more concrete then spend the time to create a proper budget for next year.

Edit: it was pointed out that the fiscal year starts April 1. So yes they could spend 3 months creating a budget that would be effective for 6 months, during a time with lots of changes due to Trump, and then they would immediately have to start working on the budget for the next year. Not exactly an effective use of resources considering the current situation

They would need to start working on their FES before the budget is even tabled. Makes no sense to table a budget now. Also, it’s going to come with a lot of new spending… do people want to spend fast or spend smart?

The liberals do not care about fiscal responsibility, of course there is no budget. The government is focused on the matter that effect Canadians directly, like how many billions to send to Ukraine in 2025.