CALGARY, AB: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is showing the frightening national debt on a monstrous digital clock, calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to stop wasting money just in time for Halloween.

“Wanna hear a scary story? Trudeau has doubled the national debt in nine years,” said Kris Sims, CTF Alberta Director. “The national Debt Clock is a frightening Halloween decoration because this isn’t just a bad dream, this debt is real and it’s scary.”

The Debt Clock is a huge digital counter mounted on the side of a moving truck that shows the federal debt increase in real time.

The federal government’s debt is currently more than $1.2 trillion. Each Canadian’s share of the federal debt is more than $29,000. The Debt Clock shows the debt increasing by about $1,200 every second.

Federal debt interest charges are costing taxpayers $54 billion this year.

“Like a blood-sucking vampire, the national debt is draining money out of taxpayers,” said Gage Haubrich, CTF Prairie Director. “Trudeau must slay his monstrous spending habit and balance the budget.

“Every nickel we pay in the GST is now going to pay interest on the debt – it’s time to end this horror show.”

The CTF parked the Debt Clock next to Calgary’s iconic Costume Shoppe and showed off the national debt while dressed in Halloween costumes, frightening everyone in the neighbourhood.

Canadians can make the national debt part of their decorative Halloween display by pulling it up online HERE.

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