Army Guy Posted February 3 Report Posted February 3 On 1/31/2026 at 11:02 AM, BeaverFever said: Baloney every company on earth accounts for capital expenses differently than operational expenses. A capital expense is building a factory. An opera expense is the monthly costs to run the factory. The former is an asset that appreciates or depreciates over an extended period of time and is measured against long term liabilities, the latter is basically a measure of your in and out daily cash flow. The PBO doesn’t have a problem with dividing budget into capital and operating. He’s saying some of what carney is calling capital should be operating. I will leave that to the technocrats to debate. As for the balanced business culture, now more than ever we need to invest when we are under threat. Our military, our infrastructure our industries all need major investments and going to grow themselves. Nobody ever won a war by not investing in their military or a trade war by not investing in trade infrastructure. Every world power that has ever existed became one because they spent massively on defence, infrastructure, research, etc. That's not how the government as been accounting, or for that matter been set up to account for anything related to finances.... the government is not a business if it was we would have been bankrupt centuries ago... PBO office has been very critical about Carneys handling of our finances, in fact putting some very big warnings out .. I have to ask why all of a sudden is this liberal dogma....we went through 11 plus years where they did the very opposite of what your suggesting...was Carney not advising Justin...why the sudden change....Did they discover a lost scroll or something ? Quote We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing.
herbie Posted February 3 Report Posted February 3 On 1/31/2026 at 12:26 AM, CdnFox said: Absolutely the conservatives can. You're absolutely bonkers to think so (solve the deficit). By cutting govt sources of revenue? Ny NOT spending on vital programs? Quote
ironstone Posted February 4 Report Posted February 4 19 hours ago, herbie said: You're absolutely bonkers to think so (solve the deficit). By cutting govt sources of revenue? Ny NOT spending on vital programs? Can you explain why the Liberals have failed to 'solve the deficit' every single year since 2015, and in fact are getting worse? Others have been posting a lot of data about the state of our economy under the Liberals, here's some more. https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/capital-flows Canada recorded a capital and financial account deficit of 13644 CAD Million in the third quarter of 2025. Capital Flows in Canada averaged -4603.15 CAD Million from 1981 until 2025, reaching an all time high of 12857.00 CAD Million in the fourth quarter of 2005 and a record low of -25086.00 CAD Million in the second quarter of 2025. source: Statistics Canada Quote Beware the Brookfield industrial complex...
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