I'm not sure this is done with as malicious and conscious intent as your comment seems to suggest though. The Cons are seeing their voter base go hard right into MAGA land, and they know they need to follow to remain being electable. It's pandering to their base that led to the Republicans to end up with nutjobs that make Sarah Palin look moderate, and it's that same pandering the led to Daniel Smith making it to (and holding onto) office. And this voter base shift is also affecting the Liberals - the disillusioned former Conservative voters that didn't jump aboard the choo-choo train to wackoland still demand their voice be heard. So Liberal politicians will have to make more changes to their stances to reach out to them, resulting in a gradual shift right for them as well.

it worked for President Zelenskyy - although I think he just stopped dressing up for work and now hangs out in his at-home crummies - and if we ignore the stark differences in character and humanity one could assume it'd work for him too.

Basic macroeconomics: The budget of a sovereign government with control over monetary policy is fundamentally not like a family budget.

it's a noble "father knows best" bit of wisdom, but you'll find ANY person, organization or even government unable to save during 'up' years - in this case because it's criticized for not dumping spare money at some cause - needs to borrow money or run a deficit in the 'down' years or when investing in something with delayed benefits.

This is actually how banks make money, but it's also a neat-o vehicle for investment. Go read about it!

This bit of falsely sage advice is a neat-o diversion from the fact that money has been used either to prevent economic collapse during a 100-year pandemic - I know: Milhouse is an expert in managing a country during a global lethal pandemic - or to restart programmes to allow people to work more and generate more tax revenue that were ditched by 'small government / fuck the plebes' administration before, and/or resume maintenance work skipped or killed by those same "looks good this year, fuck the next guy's budget" administrators.

Technical debt also accrues; and any wealthy barber will tell you to shift expensive debts to cheaper debts; and so we repair bridges with loans because we value the things we'd lose more if we didn't.

Stop with the "neither a borrower nor a lender be" bullshit that started as an adage to sloppy aristocrats. It's not even a smart rule for a single normal person, let alone a family or a government. It's short-sighted and shallow.

Disagree. The main problem is lack of housing. We need to build more, a lot more, and the Feds control CMHC. They've been content to let housing be the biggest GDP item because it serves the NIMBYs who see their overpriced house as an investment (and I say this as a homeowner whose house has appreciated 250% since I bought it)

Inflation isn't something that anyone really gets to "do anything" about. The most successful applied economic model to explain inflation boils down to "when people start talking en masse about expecting inflation, companies take that as license to raise prices." Every other economic model fails to reliably explain, predict, or resolve inflation, including the most popular - changes in interest rates.

Now do something about housing, inflation, and the CRTC please.

Such as? Inflation is already down to 2.8% which is in the range the BoC follows.

Housing is a provincial issue, there's very little the federal government can do about it.