Andrew Coyne

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2,596 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 5d ago

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The Munk Debates Podcast · Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Carney opens Canada for business and courts a new European alliance · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

You know, the the the the uh this is the this is the walking the walk after the talking the talk of Davos, the Davos speech. matched

Um and it's a it's it's a pretty significant week in the life of the country. matched

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I agree with that. matched

Uh, you know, they the the government likes to put out numbers saying, well, we're that we have the lowest uh debt to GDP ratio in the G seven, which is, you know, kind of like tallest building in in Wichita. matched

It's not a great boast to begin with and it relies a lot on using net GDP where we net out uh the amounts that we've saved in the CPP and the QPP. matched

Well, you you can't just sell those off to pay your debts. matched

So our debt situation is worse than the government is letting on. matched

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What I would say is it puts more of a premium on um getting co uh control of our expenses. matched

The government likes to make the claim and uh the argument and it's true up to a point. matched

You should distinguish between uh consumption and investment when you're talk talking about what you borrow for. matched

You borrow to buy a house, you don't borrow to pay the groceries. matched

And that's you know, that's true up to a point. matched

The problem with its arguments has been that a lot of the stuff that it classifies as investment uh isn't really investment. matched

It's it's just consumption by another name. matched

Um there's also a problem of even if it is valid investment, you have to be sure that it's going to actually um improve the GDP of the country because the argument for not for for allowing you to borrow uh for investment is that ultimately it will pay back, that you'll get a higher GDP, higher revenues, and it will improve your fiscal. matched

situation in the long run at the expense of having to take a a hit in the short run. matched

So a lot of the times that argument isn't particularly well focused. matched

In this particular case, I actually think you can make a pretty strong case. matched

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