William Watson Rightsizing is great but what keeps Ottawa from wrongsizing again?

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News Source : Financial Post

News Summary

  • The budget puts $4.354 billion into high-speed rail over the next five years.
  • Montreal and Ottawa are having terrible problems making light rail work in cold and snow.
  • I like that the budget broke the two-billion tree pledge but it doesn't tell us how many trees have been planted so far.
  • I also like that it ditches the underused Underused Housing Tax.
  • I always thought “medical marijuana’ was a bit of a joke, a loophole for legalizing weed on the sly.
  • But cannabis consumption has been legal for seven years now.
  • Couldn’t people self-medicate on their own dime if they really think it helps?
After reading John Ivisons characteristically fairmindedevaluations of the federal budget, I felt badly that my own response, written during the budget lockup, had been too negative Carney Liberal [+5987 chars]

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