Finance Minister Joe Oliver delivers the federal budget in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Tuesday April 21, 2015. (Adrian Wyld/CP)
Finance Minister Joe Oliver delivered, as he’d repeated vowed to, a balanced budget—although his projected $1.4 billion surplus this year relied on cutting the annual contingency cushion built into the budget from $3 billion to just $1 billion.
Beyond that $2-billion bit of budget craft, here are the big-ticket items among Economic Action Plan 2015’s measures:
1. As announced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper last fall, about $2 billion a year on an ongoing basis for the Family Tax …read more
Source: Macleans