Ottawa’s spending cuts made simple

Re Liberals vow to cut bill for ads, consultants,

March 27 The Liberals plan to cut millions from federal spending on advertising, consultants and professionals. That should be a snap.

Advertising: Eliminate the deceitfully partisan blue Economic Action Plan advertising, and don’t replace it with a red version.

Consultants: We have a supposedly highly skilled bureaucracy that is well paid to draft, vet and enact legislation. As a fallback, how about all this independent expertise supposedly resident in the Senate?

Professionals: Don’t introduce legislation you know is unconstitutional, as their Conservative predecessors did, and then spend millions in legal fees futilely fighting the legal challenges you knew would follow.

Amazing how simple it can be sometimes. Michael Farrell, Oakville

Let me see, the Trudeau Liberals will increase Canada’s deficit by $29 billion this year on pet projects, but we are supposed to feel overjoyed because it will cut $175 million from advertising and hiring consultants.

I would have felt better had it hired consultants to teach it something about basic economics and the harm to future generations that running huge yearly deficits and adding billions to our national debt will cause.

The Trudeau government foolishly believes running up staggering deficits will get Canada back to prosperity. This has never worked anywhere else in the world and will not here. Larry Comeau, Ottawa