🧵For years provinces have been sabotaging the federal government by cutting their own taxes, then cutting provincial programs, then blaming the federal government for funding shortfalls…
When the federal government does step up, the provinces refuse any accountability for the funding and say the issues are provincial jurisdiction. Manitoba has been a prime example of this…
Manitoba’s conservative government bragged that they cut taxes by $1.6 billion/year since 2016, gutted health care, then blamed the federal government for not doing its part, despite record high federal transfers for the province….
Meanwhile, the federal government is faced with the choice of having to increase deficits or increase taxes, while the provinces brag about decreasing their own deficits and taxes….