Canada’s federal debt, according to debtclock.ca, was $640,324,400, and a blur of three more digits when this sentence was written.
It grows by $2,969,634.70 per hour, $71,271,232.88 per day and $17,646.34 is your share.
It’s frightening. To everyone, that is, except our prime minister, who loves playing Santa Claus on the world stage.
Before parliament’s first sitting, Justin Trudeau already threw $2.65 billion at third world countries, ostensibly to help them fight climate change.
When it was our turn for help, in the wake of Fort McMurray’s fire disaster, numerous countries offered us cash.
Trudeau turned them down.
This week, with International Women’s Day as a backdrop, he earmarked $650,000,000 to be sent overseas “to address gaps in sexual and reproductive health” in poorer countries, the ranks of which Canada will no doubt join if Trudeau keeps spending the way he does.
Can the country really sustain another term of his reckless largesse? Here’s a concept: If you’re going to keep spending us into a black hole, how about at least spending on Canadians?
Canadians on wait lists for vital surgery, Canadians who are homeless, Canadians who can’t afford housing, Canadians unable to feed their families, Canadians who can’t find a job and are unbelievably stressed because of it.
Someone, please, tell Trudeau that this is our money, not his.
When we finished writing this editorial, our national debt was $640,325,411 and three more blurred digits. By the time you read this, it’ll be many millions more. The Now
