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Ever wonder how glamorous the life of a daily newspaper columnist is?

Well, here’s how I spent my Friday morning. First, I did a deep dive into government workforce statistics from the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (via the Canadian Taxpayers Federation). Then I swam around in the luxurious pools of the federal government’s Main Spending Estimates. And finally, I bathed in an RBC Economics analysis of first-quarter GDP numbers.

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I loved every minute of it.

Here’s what I learned: Justin Trudeau left Mark Carney an enormous economic and fiscal hole that Carney is determined to dig even deeper.

The first conclusion is no surprise. Trudeau’s policies led to a decade of decline in the economy, industrial productivity, investment, per capita GDP, affordability and government finances.

But Carney!? The man the Liberals touted as a........

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