There’s a reason the budget didn’t help the Liberals

Canadians are tired of enormous deficits, they don’t like being bribed with their own money, and there is fatigue with the PM as the bearer of the largesse.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and the rest of the Liberals may now be reassessing their shameless profligacy and wondering why there is no payback for their ‘generosity,’ writes Andrew Caddell. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

May 1, 2024

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—A long, long time ago, the government of Pierre Trudeau created the Department of Regional Economic Expansion. It was established in 1969, essentially to reduce economic disparity by subsidizing struggling industries in Quebec and the Maritimes. It later m...

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