The 2025 Canadian Budget

   Readers of MM will know that I am not up to commenting about budgetary matters, so I will yield the floor to Western graduate, Shannon Proudfoot, who has sparky comments about many subjects. An example is found in these few sentences:
  "The budget lays out three criteria to decide whether a program lives or dies: that it does what it’s meant to do, that it’s central to the government’s mandate and that it doesn’t duplicate another program that already exists. It will be fascinating – and almost certainly maddening – to see what melted and lint-covered things that don’t meet those tests are found stuck under the national couch cushions, but the budget doesn’t illuminate that." Can't top that!

I Couldn't Make it Past the Title
   I will say that it is embarrassingly pathetic, plus, completely American.  A strong phrase when first used after the bombing in Boston, it has been weakened dramatically by overuse. There is even a Wikipedia entry for it, which might have made some of the government marketers, think twice. For example, in it are these sentences: "Since the phrase became popular it [or variants of it] has been frequently placed on various kinds of signage and merchandise....The "Strong" slogan has been adopted by several cities affected by mass shootings and other tragedies since it first became popular in Boston."  "Something Strong" is everywhere. At least the French title looks better.

Source:
  "Carney's Budget Is A Manifesto of 'No','" Shannon Proudfoot, The Globe and Mail, Nov. 5, 2025.