Responsible governments don’t present late budgets

We should not be used to governments treating Parliament like an afterthought, in financial management or anything else.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s April 16 budget will come more than two weeks into the fiscal year. It will be the fourth in the past five fiscal years that the federal government has failed to produce a budget before the year began, write William Robson and Nicholas Dahir.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY WILLIAM ROBSON, NICHOLAS DAHIR

March 25, 2024

Along with rampant spending, erratic tax changes, and mounting debt, the federal government is developing another bad fiscal habit: its budgets are getting later.

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