Delayed spending puts communities at risk

Privatizing public assets will only mean more costs for Canadians.

Much of the federally-funded construction on everything from roads to social housing will have to wait for years before government money starts flowing.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY MATTHEW DUBé

April 12, 2017

Budget 2017, despite its promising title, Building a Strong Middle Class, does leave the middle class struggling with rising costs and record household debt, and only serves the interests of the wealthy and the well-connected. Budgets are about choices and, unfortunately, the Liberal budg...

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