@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca This is a smoke and mirrors exercise that shows a lower level of debt, but also removes goods and services from the commons. Its effects are predictable when governments then pay the new owners enhanced fees plus profit to run the service, meaning that the end user actually ends up paying more. Graphic elsewhere contrasted UK's entirely privatized electrical grid where power is sold at 23p/kwh with Norway's government system, with power being provided at the equivalent of 3p/kwh. It seems pretty clear that Carney and his vrew are hip-deep in the same smelly effluvia that eventually drove Canadians to dump Mulroney and Harper. I suspect that no admin populated by the Liberals or the Conservatives could ever be immune to the lure of the trough, and, sadly, Horgan and Eby have shown no spine in breaking out of the loving embrace of the greedy and corrupt.