Opinion | Federal budget’s focus on extraction and fossil fuels does little to help average Canadians and First Nations – The Star
Nov. 11, 2025
The political strategy of “flooding the zone” is designed to disassemble people’s ability to react effectively to change. It was coined by Stephen Bannon and implemented by U.S. President Donald Trump when he came to office in January.
But it is a strategy that has also landed in Canada with a dull thud. Prime Minister Mark Carney tipped his hat to it in a recent Bloomberg story on this month’s Liberal budget, reported in this newspaper. Claiming he did not “fully subscribe” to the tactic, Carney nonetheless confessed to seeing “the effectiveness, the value of ‘flooding the zone,’ of doing multiple things at the same time.”
