Banker's Budget

Banker's Budget exposes the grotesque nature of the Carney government's much touted "Canada Strong" 2025 budget, a plan that guts thousands of public sector jobs and hollows out public services. In the cartoon, Carney poses as the triumphant pioneer conquering the wilderness, an axe slung proudly over his shoulder. But the rugged-progressive act is just camouflage. His budget is profoundly conservative, with deep cuts across the board- cuts Stephen Harper would happily applaud, as hinted by the former prime minister's head appearing in the smoke, celebrating each swing of the axe.

These cuts siphon money away from programs that actually serve people and funnel it instead into a ballooning military budget, meeting the belligerent demands of NATO and Trump. Fast-tracking resource extraction projects is another cornerstone, with new subsidies for the fossil fuel industry and yet another pipeline on the horizon. In the cartoon, a fossil-fuel serpent spews oil and riches into the open mouths of Bay Street bankers and the arms industry, while workers, poor and Indigenous communities are left in the dust.

Canada Strong doubles down on a colonial economic warpath- accelerating environmental destruction during a global climate emergency, widening inequality, and further feeding the US-led war machine.