🇨🇦 Time to move past Trump's tariffs and focus on boosting growth, Chamber of Commerce tells Liberals

Even the Chamber is now spelling it out: stop using Trump as the all-purpose excuse and deal with Canada’s self-inflicted economic sabotage. The pre-budget pitch, as reported, is brutally simple: cut red tape, end permitting delays, dismantle interprovincial trade barriers, slash taxes, and make it possible to invest here without drowning in bureaucracy. Apparently this counts as a radical idea in Ottawa.

After years of Trudeau-era stagnation, the Liberal machine still wants applause for talking about resilience while business groups describe an entrepreneurial drought and beg for a big swing. Translation: Canada has been governed for optics, not output. Carney’s crew can brag about G7 talking points and debt ratios all it wants, but when major business voices are pleading for competitiveness, that is a flashing warning that the country is being priced, regulated, and administrated into decline. A sovereign country does not need endless excuses, consultant slogans, and managed decline dressed up as policy. It needs growth, production, and a government that stops acting like prosperity is vaguely embarrassing.

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