Kaplan: Austerity, sloganeering and budgeting

The use of silly budget titles and even sillier rhetoric has been a bipartisan effort over the last decade, but it has found new life under Justin Trudeau’s Liberals. Budgeting under Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau has become less a detailed outline of how the federal government plans to spend taxpayer money, and more an exercise in political messaging. We’ll soon see if that’s also true with the provincial Liberals’ budget, expected later this month.
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