🇨🇦 The Arithmetic of Hope: Canada’s Bet on a Different Future

Send us Fan Mail Please see our corresponding Substack episode. There's a moment in every national crisis when a government must choose between managing decline and gambling on renewal. Canada's 2025 budget represents such a moment—not because it's perfect, but because it dares to imagine that the arithmetic of austerity isn't the only math that matters. For decades, we've been told that national budgets should behave like household budgets, that debt is inherently dangerous, that the only re...