You're putting groceries back at the checkout while Ottawa is projected to spend $59.3 BILLION this year servicing federal debt. For comparison, the Canada Health Transfer is $57.4 billion. Federal GST revenue is projected at $54.8 billion. The interest bill exceeds either one. An entire year's federal GST revenue wouldn't cover it. We'd still be $4.5 billion short. Sit with that next time you check a receipt. It's like paying more interest on the renovation loan than you can put toward the repairs, while catching the roof leak in a margarine tub. Then the contractor arrives expecting applause for increasing your credit limit. That's the Liberal approach to competence: Announce the billions, pose beside the announcement and treat anyone asking what we actually got, as an irritating interruption. Meanwhile, debt charges are Ottawa's fastest-growing expense. What a magnificent achievement for a government so impressed with its own financial expertise. Carney says borrowing can fund useful things. Then show us the results. Explain the costs and account for the decisions. Carney should be doing that before Parliament without needing an engraved invitation. If Canadians have to explain a missed payment to the bank, the Prime Minister can damn well explain his borrowing to the people paying for it. We're paying interest on promises still undelivered.