CBC platformed Camosun political science instructor Daniel Reeve to analyze Premier-designate Lorne Doerkson and somehow forgot to mention the tiny detail that Reeve himself ran as an NDP candidate (and worked as a ministerial aide to NDP Health Minister Corky Evans) Here’s the “neutral expert” take they ran: “I thought one of the things that jumped out to me is that they are going to go that one of the first things that the premier elect suggested is a financial basically walking through of the budget. And I think that from that analysis, they're going to say, oh, my God, it's worse than we thought. And now we're going to have to impose a whole bunch of cuts so that we don't raise taxes and so that we don't cut health care. And that. That's going to be the financial message that's going to hopefully, from his perspective, hold that center right to kind of far right coalition together and also kind of pin the problems of his government on the past.” Just another dispassionate academic, right? The same lifelong NDP activist who spent years organizing campaigns and working inside an NDP government is now on the public broadcaster framing the new Conservative government as a cynical cut-and-blame operation aimed at “center-right to far-right” voters. Disclosure optional, apparently CBC’s mountain of omissions continues @CBCOmbud @BrodieFenlon

"The spending the operating number doesn’t capture is only part of it. The PBO flags $141.5 billion in loans and advances to enterprise Crown corporations, nearly triple the 2016 level, booked as assets because Ottawa expects to be paid back. Mazier pointed to Canada Post, which has not turned a profit since 2017. Ottawa approved up to $2.042 billion in repayable funding for the Crown corporation for 2025-26, and Canada Post lost $1.57 billion before tax in 2025. If the money never comes back, does it land on the deficit? Ryan said that risk is very much there, and that her office wanted to shine a light on it. On the Liberals’ new Crowns, including Build Canada Homes and the Canada Strong Fund, Ryan said “the risk is real” and warned that “commercial investments can go south.” Asked whether the real cost to taxpayers is growing while the government claims a balanced operating budget: “Yes, and it is in fact growing.” @DanKnightMMA