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Why immigration is THE big topic in the budget…
The Carney Liberals have done a lot of strange things with the federal budget.
They’ve moved the release of the budget from spring to fall even though the fiscal year still runs from April 1 - March 31 each year.
They’ve done some weird accounting tricks to claim the budget will be balanced when it’s not, such as separating operating and capital spending but claiming operating spending is actually capital and therefore not contributing to the deficit.
They’ve also started adding the annual immigration levels plan into the budget where they don’t belong.
Last week’s budget showed that despite claiming they were bring immigration levels down, they were doing anything but.
We talk about that in the Full Comment Podcast with Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner. We’ll have a full video version of that interview out later today that I will share here, but she’s also part of the still audio only podcast that is Full Comment.
Listen via Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
Also on the show this week, former Liberal MP Dan McTeague, a guy who was around for the Chretien/Martin budgets that dealt with out of control spending.
Dan’s not impressed with what he sees.
Also, Lucy Hargreaves, the CEO and co-founder of Build Canada, an interesting group devoted to advocating policies that will make Canada the best place to invest. Like Dan, Lucy has a background in Liberal politics having been a top political staffer to Trudeau ear cabinet ministers but while she gives credit to the government on a couple of things that will help, overall she seems to see this budget as a missed opportunity.
Enjoy.
Carney delivers a budget 'in denial'…
From the official show notes:
Immigration targets are way up again, heedless of economic and social damage caused by recent surges. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s second budget, tabled last week, offers little for boosting weak enterprise and productivity. Brian breaks it down with Michelle Rempel-Garner, Lucy Hargreaves and Dan McTeague. Rempel-Garner, Opposition immigration critic, explains why she considers the new record-high immigration targets unconscionable, and why Canadians won’t stand for them. Hargreaves, CEO of Build Canada, discusses the benefits for tech entrepreneurs, but not much improvement in a stifling business environment for everyone else. And McTeague, a former Liberal MP of the deficit-slashing era and head of Canadians for Affordable Energy, warns that accumulating blowout deficits have us now racing toward a ruinous fiscal cliff. (Recorded November 6, 2026)
I think it is important to point out two facts: Michelle Rempel-Garner and Pierre Poilievre were members of the last Canadian government to deliver a balanced budget.
They were also part of the last Canadian government that had a functioning, mutually beneficial immigration system.
Canadians, of course, rejected them four times in succession.
I had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Rempel-Garner at the Conservative Convention in January, and she could not have been more kind and generous with her time.
If you voted liberal in the last federal election, you’re a fool. And if you’re one of the seats whose Conservative walked across and became a Liberal, you need to push back. This federal liberal government is not a democracy. It is destruction.