Feb 28, 2008
Tax cuts and debt payments leave little for the poor in federal budget
“We have come to a fork in the road”
- The Conservative government put its money where its votes are with a federal budget that does comparatively little for more than three million Canadians struggling on the social fringe.
Broad-based tax cuts that will drain $60 billion from once-bursting federal coffers over the next five years mean slim pickings for those most in need, critics say.
"This budget said: 'We have no money to do anything' and then did nothing on child care, on housing, on poverty," says Armine Yalnizyan, a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Read more
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