Bloody freaking hell! CBC is giving Chrystia Freeland free promotion for her book Unreliable Boyfriend, with a soft interview that treats her like a wronged heroine instead of the finance minister who helped run one of the most reckless fiscal blowouts in modern Canadian history The teaser segment dwells on her hurt feelings: the Zoom call where Trudeau removed her as finance minister was “the third-worst day of her life.” It covers cabinet crying, tissue boxes, and tone-policing. What it largely skips is the reason she used to quit Hours before delivering the Fall Economic Statement, she resigned and accused Trudeau of “costly political gimmicks” and failing to keep “our fiscal powder dry.” That same statement showed a $61.9 billion deficit for 2023-24 — more than 50% above the $40.1 billion cap she had set herself McGill’s Christopher Ragan: “If we describe her primary job as getting our fiscal house back in order after COVID, I’m not sure she did it.” The Fraser Institute noted roughly $470 billion in added federal debt under her watch, with interest costs climbing toward $50+ billion a year. She never really pulled back on spending once the emergency ended, and the government repeatedly blew its own fiscal rules She spent years defending large deficits and high spending. When Trudeau piled on holiday GST breaks and $250 cheques, she somehow suddenly discovered prudence and walked away rather than own the numbers? CBC’s audience is not as blind as this interview assumes. Canadians watched the deficit targets get missed in real time, watched public-sector headcount grow far, far faster than the population, and watched interest costs balloon Meanwhile, the Carney government that followed has not reversed course. Its first budget projected a $78.3 billion deficit — larger than most non-pandemic Trudeau-era shortfalls — with further debt accumulation planned. Reports that the trajectory is “the same or worse” are not hard to find A 45-minute conversation that appears to from the promotion to prioritize personal grievance over the $50 billion per year hole and broken fiscal targets on the backs of Canadian taxpayers is not journalism. It’s blatant book promotion @piya