Andrew Coyne

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2,596 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 6d 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

Um but that measure is is only good as uh so far that uh ultimately, even if it's borrowing for investment, you still have to borrow the money, you still have to pay interest on it. matched

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Well, if if it was just a Christmas gift, I I agree. matched

But th that I do think you can distinguish this from other things. matched

First of all, compare this to other things that this government and the last have done to try to encourage productivity, where it involves including the investment summit for for that reason for that matter, where it's a lot to do with, you know, particular pet projects of this government or the provincial governments. matched

Um there's been a lot of, you know, you pump money into matched

R and D or you get a a mega project matched

All of which is not going to make and hasn't made a dimes worth of difference because it's it's just so small compared to the uh uh to the size of the economy, a three trillion dollar economy. matched

In this case, every one of the thousands of businesses across the country, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of businesses across the country, every time they're looking at an investment. matched

This is going to alter the calculus for them. matched

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It's going to make what were previously on economic investments, it's going to tip some of them into the economic category. matched

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But it's not a good thing. matched

I completely agree. matched

And that's why I would like to see how they're going to fund this. matched

What are they going to do to cut spending? matched

There is still enormous amounts. matched

There's still enormous amounts to be done on the tax side of spreading the t the tax burden more evenly, of eliminating um useless deductions, exemptions, and preferences that just distort investment choices, where people are making choices not on the basis of the real economic returns to different investments, but just what are the tax goodies attached. matched

to them. matched

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