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Offline SirJohn

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Re: The Canadian Federal Budget Thread
« on: March 22, 2017, 04:43:39 pm »
No new military spending or infrastructure (well, housing), but one less tax credit (it should have been fewer yet).

The best line I heard was from a guy on a BNN panel analyzing the budget. He said it was time the Liberals stopped running for office and started governing.
This is a tap-dance budget which ignores all the problems Canada faces in favour of cheesy statements about the middle class. Another good line, this time I think from CTV, was that there was a new drinking game, and every time Morneau said 'middle class' you took a drink. Except now that he's raised taxes on alcohol it was an expensive game. You'd be both plastered and broke by the end of his presentation.

Oh, and the defense capital procurement budget has basically been eliminated.
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