No easy outs: leaders should wrestle with tensions for a great budget

Budgets represent a set of difficult choices where society’s greatest needs come head to head with the cold reality of what our public finances can afford.

One can sense Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, left, and Treasury Board President Anita Anand have a strong desire to support Canada’s most vulnerable groups as the feds are pushed on fiscal discipline, writes David Jones.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID JONES

March 4, 2024

Government budget season is upon us. And it’s time to get tough.

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