Canada

PM Carney is being serious.

Campaign Carney is less so, yes, but probably given the crash course in electoral politics he just received, he knows he has an election to win and a mandate to earn before we get down to business. He's got a fine line to walk between these two personas for the next month and IMO he is handling it right so far.

He is completely undercutting the appeal of Poilievre's platform. "He already cut the carbon tax and he's going to lower taxes by 1%? Well I'll cut the carbon tax harder and I'm lowering tax by 2.75%, take that sucker!" But if you asked Canadians how much that additional 1.75% would actually save them I bet you they couldn't give you the number. (The most astute ones would say that the funding cuts to other programs would reduce the net benefit to them).

I make more than the first bracket so I qualify for the full benefit, but I would rather my taxes double if it meant that every person could have a roof over their head and access to adequate food and medical needs.

The most unserious thing about this is that the author appears not to realize that Carney's job as a candidate is to, duh, campaign. That means emphasizing planned policies that will appeal to voters. Unfortunately, the carbon tax has become political poison and scrapping it is the only sensible thing he could do in the context of appealing to the public.

I'd think I was reading the Beaverton instead of the Globe, except that this piece, while unserious, isn't funny enough.

But with each day and each cynical policy proposal, Mr. Carney shows he’s more than willing to play the political game, with the same all-consuming lust for power as any 20-years-in-the-game hack.

"All-consuming lust for power," or merely confidence he's a far better option than PP coupled with the knowledge that undercutting the cons' main talking points is practically a requirement to win enough swing voters to prevent Maple MAGA from winning the election?

What an idiotic fucking statement, clearly the author is as "unserious" as they claim this election is...

I hope they're a/b testing that headline. Unserious is an unserious word.

Neo lib regime whores doing neo lib bullshit

At least they haven't totally sold out global capital and are opposing annexation

But holy shit is is not a W for the proles

Well that's where I think Carney's tax cut is more rational. It's just lowering the rate by 1% and Pierre is lowering it much more.

I'm surprised not to see anyone touch on it, but the 1% cut is ~$400/yr per person, and the 2.25% is ~$900 a year. That should be enough to offset the impact of the tariffs for the first little while, with more targeted help available still.

I'd like to see a balance of increasing tax rates on the upper brackets to balance the difference, but that might be a bit optimistic to hope for.

Canada has the lowest National Debt to GDP ratio out of all the G8/G7 partners, and while cutting taxes would take money out of the federal purse, it would increase spending power on the street at a critical time, without having to run the money printers. At a federal purse level there is ample room to take a hit, this can be offset with bond sales etc , while the Country pivots to new trade relations/partners.

You need to spend money to make money. And I'd trust a Canadian banker with that over some empty suit who can only complain.