Any hopes they had of profiting from the prodigal nature of the Liberal platform disappeared when they released their own costing document

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TROIS-RIVIÈRES, QUE. – Every election, American newspaperman Henry Louis Mencken once said, is an advanced auction in the sale of stolen goods.

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Mencken suggested voters should have a healthy distrust for the promises politicians make to the electorate before trying to harvest their votes.

The Liberals were in a bit of a fix, having released a platform on Saturday that pledged $129 billion in new measures (tax cuts and new spending).

The eye-popping nature of the numbers mean Mark Carney’s Liberals are projecting cumulative deficits of $225 billion over the next four years.

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University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe noted that