Yesterday, Flaherty tabled his third budget.
There's a red flag that goes up in this for me. For the last couple of years, we've been hearing about a lot of big ticket military expenditures - new tanks, helicopters, ships etc. Every one of these major purchases has been announced while Parliament is not sitting, meaning that the vehicle of 'Order in Council' has likely been used to make the required legislative commitments.
My guess is that this budget is merely "window dressing", with far more going on "Order in Council" that the public doesn't get to see. It would be consistent with Harper's general secretiveness, and it also fits in with Ralph Klein's behaviour.
The budget announcements themselves were designed to be pretty innocuous in their own right, although given the current economic climate, I'm surprised to see virtually nothing going to the business and manufacturing sectors.
I'll make more commentary on the budget once I've had a chance to finish reading some more of it
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