Carney’s fiscal plans put the public service at risk

Austerity masked as modernization has a history. Former Conservative PM Stephen Harper offers the real lessons for navigating the balance between fiscal targets and institutional capacity.

Prime Minister Mark Carney shouldn’t lean too heavily on his corporate background, writes Bhagwant Sandhu. Applying Bay Street’s quarterly logic of returns on capital investment to a 158-year-old civil service is a slow grind to institutional death.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY BHAGWANT SANDHU

July 10, 2025

OTTAWA—If the rumours are true that Prime Minister Mark Carney and new Privy Council Clerk Michael Sabia plan to take a

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