Sean Kilpatrick
Budget talk: how much does the federal deficit matter?
In conversation with Brock Carlton and David Macdonald
John Geddes sat down with the CEO of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities to find out why he thinks this budget is a watershed moment for infrastructure
And here, he asks David Macdonald, senior economist for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, if the federal deficit matters a lot, or a little.
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