The $5.4 billion projected deficit in 2015/16 is driven by higher spending—not a weak economy.
Justin Trudeau
Part of being free is being free not to participate in the democratic process if you don’t want to.
Reforming OAS so that high-income seniors receive fewer benefits could produce cost-savings to pay for increased benefits to vulnerable seniors.
It’s fairly clear that most of the budget's ‘infrastructure’ spending is not aimed at improving Canada’s roads, bridges and highways.
The whole country (except Nunavut) will be encouraged to over-invest in public transit since, under the cost-sharing formula, new dollars will only cost 50 cents.
By 2017/18 spending will be up by $50 billion from 2014/15, representing a jump of 20 per cent.
In the Liberal budget, only 0.2 per cent of the $8.4 billion designated for Aboriginal people is for skills and employment training.
Budget projects an increase in total federal debt of approximately $113 billion over the next five years.
As the Liberals table their first budget today, federal government debt has reached $692 billion.
New climate tests are unnecessary since the effects of pipelines and LNG terminals on climate change are negligible at worst and positive at best.