“Instead of making the single mom, the senior, or the small business owner live with scarcity, I want the politicians and bureaucrats to live with scarcity. And that's what I would impose by law on my government.”
This is a sharp, populist reframe of fiscal conservatism that flips the usual narrative — positioning austerity not as a burden on citizens but as a constraint on the political class itself.
Guest (Canadian Politician)
“Back during COVID, all the politicians and bankers said, 'This is great, look at all this money we get to spend.' I'd walk around communities and have mechanics say, 'We're going to have inflation.' Sure enough, all that money filtered into the economy and everybody got smoked with higher prices. The common people who don't study this stuff for a living could figure out what the experts couldn't.”
A stinging indictment of credentialed expert culture backed by a concrete, real-world example — directly challenges the trust-the-experts consensus that dominated COVID-era policy.
Guest (Canadian Politician)