🇨🇦 Carney's Affordability Announcement Is Political Theatre Timed To Byelection Wins

The sequencing here is not subtle. Monday: Liberals sweep three byelections and lock in a majority. Tuesday: Carney announces affordability measures. The timing is a masterclass in using policy announcements as victory lap optics rather than genuine governance responses. These measures were not announced before the byelections when voters might have weighed them critically. They arrive the morning after, when the political leverage has already been extracted and the majority is secured.

This is the Trudeau-era playbook Carney inherited and has refined: govern through announcement cycles, use affordability language to mask structural failures, and ensure every policy reveal lands in a media window that maximizes Liberal branding. Fuel is at $1.70 a litre, groceries are being fraudulently weighed, housing remains catastrophically unaffordable, and the government's answer is a press conference held at the precise moment of maximum political invincibility. Canadians are not getting relief — they are getting managed.

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