Is there any reason to believe this government will adopt budget prudence now, when it has shown no inclination to do so in the past?
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Three eminently qualified people with first-hand experience and no political axes to grind have issued a So who do you trust: the finance minister who has regularly spoken of caution, prudence and red lines while waving through massive spending increases; the premiers, who have obviously been led to believe a new flood of money is in the offing; or the three greybeards who have seen it all before and doubt Ottawa is on the right track?David Dodge, who was deputy minister to Paul Martin when the former finance minister took on Canada’s 1990s budget crisis; Robert Asselin, budget director to former...
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