Poilievre obviously doesn't understand money. Whether spending more money than you have in the bank account can make sense depends on what you are spending it on. Spending it on growing our economy and creating jobs makes it an investment that will create greater returns than the interest on it. Spending it to help people pay for rent and food when there is a pandemic and they are not able to work makes sense. Certainly not all of our debt was spent wisely but also certainly not all debt is bad either.

Note to people downvoting:

Downvoting a news article doesn't undo what the opposition leader said, but it does make people less informed about it.

I think it's helpful to hear what happened and then read a discussion about it in the comments.

Why would we listen to this moron?

the high-speed rail, the gun buyback program, external consultants, the federal bureaucracy, and foreign aid

If we vote hard enough can we get an opposition leader who attacks the government for the stupidly wasteful things they do — i.e. the gun buyback and consultants — and doesn't just reject every single normal Canadian thing including building trains and funding the CBC?

This is the MP who lost his seat, right?

Sorry, how does one cap a deficit for an entire country? This isn't a small business that can't pay it's bills. I'm no economist but I don't think you can tell your country that they can't afford healthcare this year because the whiner doesn't want the bills to get bigger.

I'm also convinced that Poilievre doesn't actually understand how a deficit works any more than my cat does.

If he were Prime Minister right now, we'd be so far up Trump's ass we'd be attacking Ukraine and be the boots on ground in Iran.

I have no clue why the CPC party renewed their support for this dribble that lost them the last election that every poll said they had a 20 point lead going into, and had to be re-run in a stronghold riding to keep his leadership afterwards.

Then his "leadership" drives enough of the remaining MPs they retained over to the Liberals to give them a clear majority. In any reasonable party, he wouldn't be holding a mop in the party headquarters afterwards.

His incompetence was the best thing that happened to Canada going into the lunacy of the present US administration. We'd have been so thoroughly fucked if he were in power, I shudder to think about it.