A budget unworthy of the name

This is a shopping list, with little regard for balance sheets, fiscal projections, the state of the economy, and the requirement governments be careful stewards of the public purse.

The 2023 federal budget books stacked inside the lockup at the Westin Hotel on March 28. The title is a meaningless mouthful, with economic nationalism, a cliché, a pitch on inflation, and a prognostication, writes Andrew Caddell. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

April 5, 2023

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—In May 2021, I wrote a column assessing the first federal budget tabled by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland. Because of its profligacy, I cal...

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