My God, how the money rolls in! Carney addresses the affordability crisis

It is expansive, lasting programs—like national child care, dental care, comprehensive pharmacare, and a much improved medicare—that provide most material benefit to the most people. Yet, those programs the Carney Liberals appear ready to let wither before they have even had a chance to flourish.

Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, and his ebullient finance minister, Francois-Philippe Champagne pay lip service to 'prosperity for all' in the spring economic update, and elsewhere, but there is more than a whiff of naiveté, or tokenism, in their actions, writes Susan Riley.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

May 4, 2026

CHELSEA, QUE.—Are all you diligent filers enjoying your “middle-class tax break”? What do you mean, you didn’t notice? It was newly minted Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first big gesture towards affordability last May and took effect July 1, 2025. It occupied the ne...

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