What now for Jim Flaherty ... and other questions of the day

John Geddes, Stephen Gordon, Nick Taylor-Vaisey, Paul Wells and Aaron Wherry consider the issues at play around Parliament Hill. This week’s questions? They’re (almost) all about the budget:

• Does Finance Minister Jim Flaherty change directions with this week’s federal budget?
• How will the government balance the budget by 2015?
• How will this budget change Canada Day?
• What is Mike Lazaridis up to?
• How well will Jim Flaherty like what he reads in the papers today?

More from Maclean’s:

• John Geddes on the budget of contradictions
• Full transcript of the budget speech
• The question of infrastructure — and a $53-billion answer
• Budget winners and losers judge Flaherty’s choices
• The conservative agenda in the numbers