How the federal budget will affect families
MoneySense editor Romana King breaks down the numbers
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federal budget 2016
From one Trudeau budget to another
Pierre Trudeau’s first budget had one big economic advantage over his son’s
Then and now: Justin Trudeau on deficit politics
The Liberals have already abandoned their balanced-budget pledge. Will they still be able to lower Canada’s debt-to-GDP ratio by the end of their mandate?
Twenty words that appear in the budget more often than ’deficit’
Even the phrase ’balanced budget’ appears more in the budget than ’deficit’—the document’s reality. Charting out the words the Liberals thought mattered more
Video: In conversation with Bill Morneau
Cormac MacSweeney goes one-on-one with the finance minister after his first federal budget
Maclean’s annotates the 2016 federal budget
Our experts break it all down, offering up data, charts—and, because a budget can be complex—an emoji translation
25 ways the federal budget affects you
A MoneySense guide to Budget 2016 by Romana King
Fact-checking Budget 2016: Sunny ways, cloudy wording
We put Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s budget speech to the test
Welcome back to the age of big government in Canada
The word ’government’ was all over Bill Morneau’s lips in his budget speech—with few mentions of ’business.’ Times are a-changing.
A preview of the 2017 federal budget
Mike Moffatt on what today’s budget telegraphs about what is to come