It is, for better or worse, a document Donald Trump can live with.
For make no mistake, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has penned the 2017 federal budget as if America were breathing over its shoulder.
There are, for instance, very few huge-ticket spending items (those who do win big, such as the Canada Revenue Agency, are entities whose job is to find missing money). Where new programs are created, or old ones boosted, re-allocation is mostly the name of the game.
And there are lots of shout-outs to the Americans in budget 2017. For instance, in a section on defence spending, the …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
