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John Robson: We Have Far Less Time Than We Think to Balance the Budget

John Robson: We Have Far Less Time Than We Think to Balance the Budget
Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld
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Kaboom. It’s loud, scary, and urgent. But it’s not the sound of new Canadian munitions going off as we ramp up to $150 billion a year in defence spending because they said so. It’s the federal budget detonating. And if anyone’s minded to call the bomb squad instead of waiting to be blown to insolvency come, now would be a good time. A really good time.

John Robson
John Robson
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John Robson is a documentary filmmaker, National Post columnist, senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation, contributing editor to the Dorchester Review, and executive director of the Climate Discussion Nexus. His most recent documentary is “The Environment: A True Story.”