Grits busy selling first budget coast to coast, internationally

The last two weeks since the budget was tabled were break weeks, and the government used the time, as is usual, to reach out to Canadians post-budget, with all ministers, as well as Liberals MPs and the PM, doing their part to highlight spending.
Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaking about the budget March 22 in the Sir John A. Macdonald building in Ottawa.
The House was on break for the last two weeks, but cabinet ministers and government backbenchers were out selling how the new Trudeau government will spend $290-billion this fiscal year. Liberal MP François-Philippe Champagne (Saint-Maurice-Champlain, Que.), parliamentary secretary to the finance...

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