Budget 2018 not an election-year spending plan, but Liberals ‘pre-staging’ some issues: stakeholders

The closest thing to a consensus among the diverse representatives of virtually all sectors of the Canadian economy was the budget offered a lot for research and science, though many other asks were left out.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau's 2018 budget, tabled on Feb. 27, had a strong focus on gender parity and the sciences but was not seen by stakeholders as an election-year budget. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SHRUTI SHEKAR

February 28, 2018

The Trudeau government's third federal budget is not an election-year spending plan crafted with an eye towards the campaign trail, though certain elements could hint at what issues the Liberals will run on in the 2019 vote, say stakeholders. Nearly 200 representatives from the private and non-prof...

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