The Trudeau budget: What you should know before tomorrow – The Globe and Mail

Mar. 21, 2016

After months of flowing rhetoric about sunny ways and a different approach to politics, Tuesday’s federal budget marks a key moment for the new Liberal government: Is there substance behind the new style?

Last fall’s Liberal Party election platform is an obvious guide as to what the budget will contain. But much has changed since Oct. 19. Economists have repeatedly lowered their forecasts for economic growth and, as a result, the size of next year’s federal deficit is now expected to be three times as large as what the Liberals promised during the campaign.

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