Money seems to mean nothing to our leadership in Ottawa these days.

Over the past couple of weeks, Prime Minister Mark Carney has been jetting around making announcement after announcement.

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He has announced roughly $100 billion in new spending since the House of Commons broke for the summer, one of the largest waves of spending announcements outside the pandemic.

This includes $30 billion in increased annual defence spending by 2030, between $35.2 billion and $43.7 billion for a new pipeline from Alberta to B.C.’s southern coast, and roughly $20 billion in new spending to pacify B.C.’s NDP government, which has long complained about the amount the Carney government intends to invest in an Alberta pipeline at the expense of taxpayers elsewhere.

All these announcements came with vague price tags, minimal financial details, and little explanation of where the money is coming from.

Considering that the Carney government plans to run deficits of at least $50 billion in each of the next five years, announcements of........

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