Taxpayers have a simple benchmark for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget: Spending must go down.

After a decade of out-of-control spending, Carney’s budget will be a failure if he spends one dollar more than former prime minister Justin Trudeau.

There’s plenty of waste to cut in Ottawa.

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council takes more than $1 billion from taxpayers every year. It spent $20,000 studying the gender politics of Peruvian rock music, $105,000 “tracking the birth, life and death” of a grocery cart and $50,000 studying the “affective experience of sexual and erotic video games.”

Carney needs to rein in Ottawa’s worst waste offender: Global Affairs Canada.

Global Affairs bureaucrats bill taxpayers $51,000 per month on booze. The department spent $8,800 on

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