🇨🇦 Canada’s debt miracle is just accounting theatre

132 percent of GDP or 21 percent. Same country, same governments, wildly different story depending on which ledger trick Ottawa prefers. That is the punchline in this reported breakdown of federal, provincial and municipal debt math. The regime sells Canadians the tidy federal net-debt number, while the broader public-sector pile tells the uglier truth: liabilities are being shuffled around like a Bay Street shell game so the political class can pretend Canada is fiscally disciplined.

This is what Trudeau-era governance perfected: drown the country in spending, import millions to prop up headline GDP, then brag that ratios look manageable. Sovereignty gets mortgaged, provinces get squeezed, taxpayers get the bill, and the consultant class still demands more green subsidies, DEI bureaucracy and globalist vanity projects. A country that needs accounting semantics to explain its debt load is not strong, it is managed decline with better branding.

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