Mark Carney, a senior advisor to the Trudeau government since 2020, is now trying to disown Trudeau’s disastrous fiscal and economic record and instead latch on to the much stronger record of a previous Liberal government. “It was my privilege to work with Paul Martin when he balanced the books — and kept the books balanced,” Carney said last week.

Nice try, Mr. Carney. Not only should Canadians refuse to let Carney off the hook for his negative contributions to the Trudeau economy, but going back to the Paul Martin days, Carney wasn’t appointed Senior Associate Deputy Minister of Finance until November 2004 — nearly a decade after the Chrétien-Martin budget of 1995-96 which set Canada on the path out of its debt crisis and well after that government balanced the budget in 1997-98.