there's about 20-25% tariffs in transiting goods through the provinces, and interprovincial trade is around $170 billion. slashing that would be throwing around 35-45 billion dollars away in lost revenue.

for reference, the massive job losses coming to the civil service are expected to "save" the government $60 billion, and probably cost the economy twice that in multiplier effects, and this was being projected as a way to "save the country from fiscal ruin", when it is in truth simply going to ravage large swaths of the local economy in the pm's own riding, which he just won and could now very well lose asap.

the next day, they cut another $40 billion in revenue with no economically coherent way to regenerate it, besides nonsense about tax cuts being stimulus (no empirical study anywhere at any time has ever upheld the ideologically driven market religion belief that cutting taxes stimulates the economy. this is thoroughly debunked as completely faith-driven nonsense with not the slightest shred of evidence to support.)? why?

could it be because they want more spending cuts?