BUDGET? WHAT BUDGET?

In the interest of transparency, it says, Table A1.3 of last week’s fiscal update provides details of all “off-cycle” funding decisions — that is, all new spending Ottawa has committed to since this year’s budget, which came down March 22. That was 32 weeks ago. According to the table, there have been 43 tweaks to the spending plan. That’s one every five days if you include weekends; every 3.7 days if you don’t.
Nothing’s really gigantic. The biggest single expenditure is only $173 million. (Listen to me: “only $173 million.” What’s become of us?) It’s for renewal of Operation IMPACT, Canada’s contribution “to the Global Coalition against Daesh,” Daesh being Eurocrat-speak for ISIL.
But somehow that and the other 42 changes all add up to $1.833 billion this budget year, growing to $2.299 billion in 2022–23.