i think mark carney's language and direction likely reflects his background out of government. how many educators have you heard run their mouths off about efficiencies in government from the top of their ivory towers, only to come down to government, step foot in the real world and realize they had no idea what they were talking about? i think that's really what's going on here. you saw this with elon musk recently, who assumed cutting "government waste" would be easy enough for a toddler (or somebody with the mentality of one) to do with no effort, and walked away a discredited disgrace. mark carney is going to learn that there's not so much "red tape" and "inefficiency" to cut after all, with the exception of the salaries of mps, and of backroom deals handing out government contracts to staffing agencies. the single most effective thing that government could do to reduce waste would be stop hiring third party staffing agencies, but they won't do that, and, in fact, a large component of their buy canada policy is going to be increase that. the right option is to stop cutting taxes to win elections, and the right solution at the end of this is going to be to reverse recent tax cuts, which should not have been done. the upside is that carney seems to be a fast learner. let's hope he learns and adjusts quickly to reality, and leaves the elite speak of "cutting red tape" behind in the ivory tower he's abandoned for the real world.