𝗔 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗺𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲.

"𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵"

Actual meaning: politicians spending taxpayers' money, usually on their pet projects and often in cahoots with private sector operators seeking lucrative government contracts.

"𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘑𝘰𝘣𝘴"

Actual meaning: Utter bullshit. See "Investment" above. It is an actual shell game. Money is extracted from taxpayers, reducing their ability to support those providers of the goods and services they would "vote" for with their dollars, given the freedom to do so. The jobs they would have been supporting never come into existence because...

those dollars are redirected toward goods and services that the politicians think the people should have: like EVs and battery plants.

No jobs are thus created. They are shifted around. Everyone, with the exception of those receiving tax dollars becomes poorer.

This kind of grifting has been going on forever and the people barely notice it, but at some point, it becomes so endemic that the people really start to feel it. This is Canada today.

Another cringeworthy term is "carbon capture" or "carbon sequestration." This abomination comes about as a result of the Climate Scam. This idiocy will have no more impact on the global climate than digging up megatons of dirt from Nova Scotia, delivering it by truck to British Columbia, and reburying it there. Such a project could also be called an "investment" that would "create jobs." But only the most die-hard Carney supporter would try to argue that such a retarded project would improve the lives of Canadians.