Tom Brodbeck: Fall budget defining moment for Carney, Canada

July 10, 2025

The fall budget will be a defining moment. If Carney is serious about restoring fiscal sanity, he’ll have to do more than ask ministers to trim around the edges. He’ll have to make hard, sometimes unpopular decisions. He’ll have to explain to Canadians why a return to balanced budgets — not overnight but within a reasonable time period — matters, not just in theory, but in practice…