The Conservative plan, she claimed, “will put as many as 40,000 public sector jobs at risk. The idea that billions of dollars can be effortlessly sliced from public spending without anyone feeling a thing is obviously specious. Could Ford cut four per cent out of annual spending just through “efficiencies”? The idea that billions of dollars can be effortlessly sliced from public spending without anyone feeling a thing is obviously speciousWhat would it take to get us there? To shrink the size of government — or even to make room for the ever-expanding maw of health care spending — it is neither necessary nor advisable simply to cut spending across the board.

Source: National Post March 16, 2018 23:59 UTC