{"id":29481,"date":"2025-04-22T21:24:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=29481"},"modified":"2025-04-22T21:24:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:24:47","slug":"loose-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=29481","title":{"rendered":"Loose Change&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"711\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Loose-change.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Loose-change.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Loose-change-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Loose-change-768x546.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#034470\"> Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has released the fully costed platform with more than $31 billion in deficits this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#034470\">The measures include a 15 per cent income tax cut for Canadians making an annual salary of $57,000 a year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#034470\">The new promises would result in a deficit of $31.4 billion in 2025-2026; $31.5 billion in 2026-2027; $23.6 billion in 2027-2028; and $14.2 billion in 2028-2029.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#034470\">Poilievre claimed that his plan will cut the \u201cLiberal deficit by 70 per cent\u201d by cutting back on \u201cbureaucracy, consultants, foreign aid to dictators and terrorists.\u201d He says he will slash money for special interests and unleash \u201chalf a trillion dollars of extra economic growth by unlocking the power of resources in home building.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"718\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Court-Painter-Loose-Change.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Court-Painter-Loose-Change.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Court-Painter-Loose-Change-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Court-Painter-Loose-Change-768x551.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-bright-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Court Painter seen tuning a stringed instrument <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Carney.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29268\" style=\"width:auto;height:700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Carney.jpg 630w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Carney-252x300.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#f7190d\"><strong><em>Former Bank Governor seen poised to contribute his two cents worth.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-7 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#e70e02\">A former Bank Governor says the numbers in Conservative Pierre Poilievre\u2019s costed plan \u201care a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-8 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#e70e02\">The former Bank Governor also slammed the platform as having \u201cphantom numbers\u201d and \u201cphantom growth that comes from the sky.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-9 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#e70e02\">\u201cWe aren\u2019t in a joke. We are in the worst crisis in our lives,\u201dthe former Bank Governor said , noting that Poilievre does not have a plan to challenge U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Court-Painter-Pick-me-Carney.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Court-Painter-Pick-me-Carney.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Court-Painter-Pick-me-Carney-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Court-Painter-Pick-me-Carney-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-10 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#d81106\"><strong><em>Court Painter stares intently into the crystal ball.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has released the fully costed platform with more than $31 billion in deficits this year. The measures include a 15 per cent income tax cut for Canadians making an annual salary of $57,000 a year.&nbsp; The new promises would result in a deficit of $31.4 billion in 2025-2026; $31.5 billion in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=29481\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Loose Change&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29481"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29490,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29481\/revisions\/29490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}