Ten big takeaways from Budget 2022

The budget pronounced that the government will have a bill to create a national pharmacare program tabled and passed by the end of 2023. The Liberals might have passed a perfectly good pharmacare bill already, had it not inconveniently been sponsored by a New Democrat.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured April 6, 2022, bought a pair of black high heels for her budget day shoes at L'Intervalle in the Rideau Centre in Ottawa.
1. Everything is going to be fine—A better-than-expected economic recovery gave the government just enough wiggle room to set aside billions in new funding for the economy, housing, defence, dental care, and more while trimming the deficit faster than planned, and keeping Canada’s project...

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