Reducing debt requires balanced budgets and paying debt down. That will never happen under Trudeau.
As existing debt matures and has to be replaced with new debt at higher higher rates, balancing budgets will become even more difficult as more tax revenue is required to service existing debt, never mind future deficits.
When interest rates spiked in 2022, debt interest costs began rising rapidly again. According to the spring federal budget, debt interest will cost $34.5 billion in 2022/23 and reach $43.9 billion in 2023/24. To put this in context, the cost to service federal debt is on track to more than double over a three-year period from 2020/21 to 2023/24.
Consequently, Ottawa will spend almost as much on debt interest this year as what it spends on the Canada Health Transfer ($49.4 billion), which is money the federal government sends to provinces to help fund health-care services. The government also spends more on interest costs than it spends on the Canada Child Benefit and national daycare programs combined ($31.2 billion).
Cuts? What about the 43 billion in new spending being paid for by new debt?