It's highway robbery alright, with silencer muting the gun blast

A pump attendant fueling a car at a petrol station. [File, Standard]

Well, well, well. Where do we start?  Let me start by conceding that I am developing new respect for this administration’s ability to steal. I mean it, sincerely. I think the term used by Gen-Z is “mad respect.”

After many years of being used to crude heists, the sort that the Auditor General and the Controller of Budget routinely and which a complicit Parliament waves on, we’ve become numb to national plunder.