Trudeau Tackles Economy Head on With C$120 Billion Deficit
- Liberals target infrastructure, middle class for spending
- Morneau says budget can be balanced in five years on growth
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As an opposition lawmaker in Canada’s parliament seven years ago, Justin Trudeau criticized former Prime Minister Stephen Harper for making government “totally absent from the defining issues of our time.”
In his first budget as prime minister released Tuesday, Trudeau put the federal government back at the center of the nation’s economy with almost C$120 billion ($92 billion) in accumulative deficits and the biggest jump in spending since the 2009 recession.