Should the government make cuts to public spending in order to reduce the national debt?

Stop spending so much money on indigenous programming, asylum seekers spending, and wasteful programming like foreign affairs. We need better value for all.

Yes we should cut government spending to lower inflation and leave more money in people's pockets

yes. the government should stop spending Canadian's tax dollars on unnecessary things like snap elections

No, increase taxes on ultra rich and large corporations instead.

Yes, but only for ineffective services, and more effort should be made to ensure that the top income bracket pay a fair share in taxes

It depends on what public spending is being cut. For example, healthcare should not be cut; however, the pensions of government officials could be cut.

Tax the rich higher and do not permit hiding income or diverting income. And stop spending so much if you do not spend you budget roll it over to the next year. Do not force the budgets be spent so they can get the same budget the next year

Yes, but by drastically reducing the size of government, benefits and salaries of government officials, as well as Social programs.

I think we should slightly decrease the amount of funding we are providing to groups such as the CBC and defund programs and departments which don’t serve and don’t do anything

Yes, increase taxes on foreign entities, reduce military spending and police spending, abolish useless government agencies and form several agencies into 1 to save money, restructure our administration system and cut the benefits and salaries of government officials.

No, increase tax on wealthy, focus on tax evasion, reduce government officials and reduce their salaries, increase tax on multinational corporations

Reduce salary and benefits for high ranking government officials. Increase taxes on large corporations

This question needs to be defined better. The government needs to stop wasting taxpayer dollars on handouts etc.

They should make cuts to public spending deemed unnecessary by the people and work more on ensuring the national debt is reduced safely without harming the country's economy and its people.

Reduce pork barrel, increase finance to military lower taxes to businesses. And a fair tax to all . Reduce federal and provincial departments. Reduce and provincial employees wages to what the public wages are in that category. Reduce federal and provincial pensions. What a reasonable person would get in the private sector.

No, but focus on ending inefficiencies due to bureaucracy and prioritize domestic policy instead of foreign aid/initiatives

Reduce the benefits and salaries of government officials, and reduce the number of government officials instead

No, end tax evasion and excess spending through the military and other government industries instead

Yes, drastic cuts or complete elimination to all areas of government that are not involved with national and border defense. Eliminate the RCMP and allow provinces to construct provincial police and local police with elected sheriffs or police chiefs.

No, instead increase taxes on items / behaviours that do not align with federal policies and national social values.

Run government like a business instead of having very highly paid people doing very little (and often with little competence). I used to work for BC government. what I saw was offensive to me as a taxpayer.

No, I think they should come up in another way.

No. Introduce corporation laws around the need to provide a minimum living wage to all employees while capping CEO annual salaries to a ? proportion of their employee base annual wages/salaries with the legislative goal of decreasing the gap between the extreme rich and poor and recreating the middle class. Tax base would increase = $ to reduce the national debt.

No but thwy should be held accountable for every cent of taxes they collect and have the abbility to proce where they went

We need to control government spending

Do what Jean Chretien did

I would say to be very cautious when cutting things, because it could have a ripple effect which spreads and effects programs and services that society needs. It's easy to say as an example to cut the CBC, but then what about all of the artists/cultural services, as well as segments of society that benefit from having accessible news, and an avenue to show arts and culture? It often goes wrong, and that makes me skeptical. We have to nurture our government and democracy, and make sure that we have sustainable ways to pay for all of the services that we want, and that can include running deficits if it help keeps people afloat, as well as other things such as creating more opportunity with short-term spending.

No, but drastically change what and how much they are spending on various things. Such as cars, computers, political summits/meetings.

Depends. Debt is complicated, and so are deficits. Things can go wrong.

Yes, but mostly increase taxes on large multinational corporations

Increase taxes on the very wealthy and large corporations.

It depends. A lot of things could go wrong by slashing different programs and implementing austerity measures, as there could be programs needed that in the long run, could reduce the national debt.

Depends on what they are spending it all on

yes, but limit simple things like vehicles and houses and selfish spending.

Run lean administration of programs (not necessarily gov austerity). new approaches, quantifiable assessment of program delivery effectiveness, including assessment of core issues. People should be concerned about the wide gap in executive wage and compensation in all gov, crown agencies...and the private sector, equity redistribution

Yes, but not in order to reduce dept

on somethings

Yes, but by reducing spending on elections.

speak English

The gouvernents dept is their problem and they shouldn’t make cuts

Yes, and focus on reducing tax evasion.

Yes, but consideration for COVID relief and potential depression should be made

yes, less to armed forces and policing.

Depends what cuts they are making

Stop giving all our money 5o other countries

No to decreasing public spending, ; yes to reducing tax for low income; yes to closing tax loopholes for wealthy people and corporations & reducing/ending tax evasion

I believe there could be some public spending cut but there are many other avenues that can be taken as well. It would have to be informed of what public spending we are talking about cutting because Health Care and Education are important to bring our Country forward. We could increase taxes on the wealthy as they are able to afford the tax increase, as well as reducing the number of Government officials.

Change marginal tax rates

Cut foreign spending instead.

Governments should be mandated to provide balanced budgets

There needs to be a financial plan to maintain certain things in the city. We need to start saving money where we can't afford it and allow grants only when absolutely needed.

There needs to be a branch of govt created to investigate and or audit all foreign people who are claiming little or no earnings but living a life of luxury . There's alot of that here in vancouver b.c.

I don’t have a firm stance either way.

Cut First Nations funding, they should be treated like the rest of us

No, but drastically reducing the benefits and salaries of government officials and get rid of some government officials

No, increase taxes on corporations and the wealthy

No, stop sending money to other countries and supporting terrorists and buying years worth of vaccines.

Increase public spending but redirect direct payments toward infrastructure development.

No, focus on tax collection and end tax evasion instead, and revamp government agencies to reduce bureaucracy and red tape, eliminate nepotism and start firing incompetent/inefficient employees.

The government should drastically reduce the benefits and salaries of government officials, reduce military spending, end tax evasion and loopholes, and increase taxes on the wealthy.

No, but reduce military spending, focus on ending tax evasion, increase taxes on the wealthy and large multinational corporations, and drastically reducing benefits and salaries of government officials.

Reduce military spending, reduce money to police, reduce how many government officials we have, reduce government employee salary, cut ties with the monarchy

Yes, by increasing taxes on the wealthy and on large multinational corporations, and reducing military spending.

Yes, most of Federal Government spending is for Civil Servants to redistribute funds to other high level civil servants, trickling it down to nothing and using strings attached to control local and provincial Government affairs.

Yes, but make the public sector more efficient...please, please, please. I see this as the biggest (by a country mile) source of waste and mis management in Canada. Monopolies are never a good idea - obviously. And we don't need government monopolies to prevent us from becoming "American". Seems the be the biggest fall back for proponents of a government workforce to deliver everything. No one wants an American health care system. But we can certainly have a system more efficient, timely, and less expensive than the way ours has developed. It's hopeless, and throwing more money at it isn't the answer.

Yes, but first reduce the number of government officials, their benefits and salaries

Government should reduce the amount of spending on foreign aid

Yes, but by increasing taxes on the wealthy and large multinational corporations, as well as ending tax evasion, by reducing the bureaucracy, and by reducing the benefits and salaries of politicians

Take away the power of those who have the power to raise their own benefits at the expense of others. Drastically reduce the continually growing gap between the 1% & everyone else! POWER CORRUPTS! THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL.!

Reduce military funding, and tax the rich more and big companies

Impose higher taxes on the rich, and reduce military spending.

Increase taxes on wealthy individuals and multinational corporations

yeah but cut corporate welfare, crtc and legalise and deregulate most drugs. then you can cut a huge amount of taxes.

steel money from other countries

personally i am in the middle with this subject

This question is not relevant to me individually

not necessarily

How can they just stop spending?

No, we should reduce military spending, reduce subsidies to fossil fuel corporations and multinational corporations and we should raise taxes on the wealthy, tax religious institutions, and crack down on tax evasion by individuals and corporations.

Due to unnecessary, sporadic spending by the current government, I cannot make an answer

Cut taxes and all spending

Reduce waste spending on ridiculous items like city sculptures and other types of frivolous spending. Drop foreign aid completely and take bank our central bank so there is no interest on our debt.

Both cuts to egregious public spending and reduce government

No, make cuts to foreign aid and use it on public spending instead

No, but decrease the pay and benefits of government workers

I believe there are areas in spending which the government could eliminate but I do not believe all public spending should be eliminated.

No, but reduce government spending for a while and increase taxes on the rich

National debt will never go away and will never go down. We can't cut spending, we need to asses how to allocate it. Again this isn't a simple yes or no, it needs a deep analysis to understand where the money goes and how we redirect it.

Reduce benefits & salaries of government officials, inrease taxes on large multinational corporations

Yes by cutting all tax breaks and exemptions given to corporations and businesses. Along with limiting refugees and immigrants receiving social assistance cheque’s.

The government should make cuts only to those who keep spending an excessive amount of money on things they do not need

Yes, public spending should be prioritized. Logically, essential servives are first priority. ie: Art is not an essential service ;)

Yes but reduce pensions of federal politicians by the same amount in total when reducing salaries of governmental staff (calling them officials misleads the level of staff who would be affected)

No, but they should focus on ending tax evasion and finding a way to stimulate job growth and the economy.

bro how are economics real just print more money

Canada needs to provide the public with a complete list of public services and allow citizens to rank what is most important to Canadians, and cut those of least importance.

Yes, by cutting “red tape” and excess spending on “consultant” fees.

Cut salaries of government officials to no more than $120,000 a year, cut military and police spending in half and reorganize both the police, military and high command, end tax evasion of big buisnesses, increase taxes for the wealthy, reduce the number of government officials by abolishing the senate and increase taxes on corporations.

I would say be cautious. Often times, those who want austerity measures to be in place don't think things through, and can cause a lot of unintended damage to the greater federal budget, leaving a massive mess for future generations, but also erodes faith in our democratic system. Overall, I would say be pragmatic and methodical, and have wise investments with lots of consultation rather than just blanket cutting of programs or adding of programs.