Off the rails: A guided tour of the Liberals’ fiscal fecklessness

THE SUNDAY EDITORIAL Off the rails: A guided tour of the Liberals’ fiscal fecklessness In their decade in power, the Liberals have promised, and then broken, a succession of fiscal rules THE EDITORIAL BOARD THE GLOBE AND MAIL PUBLISHED MAY 3, 2026 UPDATED MAY 4, 2026 ILLUSTRATION BY MELANIE LAMBRICK/THE GLOBE AND MAIL COMMENTS SHARE SAVE FOR LATER Justin Trudeau’s Liberals won the 2015 election campaign in part on a deficit promise that was radical then, and is today – but for much different reasons. In that campaign, Mr. Trudeau thumbed his nose at balanced-budget orthodoxy, instead layin…