It is hard to connect enough dots to get a solid take on the big picture of the first NDP federal government. But reading between the lines of the fiscal framework, that government hardly looks like it was worth the 60-year wait of the Canadian Left.
Chantal Hébert
Thu, 2015-09-17 11:16
Jim Flaherty could have signed off on the fiscal framework the NDP presented on Wednesday. It borrows more from the late Finance minister's budgets than it offers in original content—at least at the front end of a New Democrat federal mandate.
That starts with the tax-cutting infrastructure Flaherty put in place over his near decade as Stephen Harper's Finance minister. Under a federal government run by Thomas Mulcair, its main pieces would remain untouched and with them the toll they take on the federal government's capacity to finance programs.
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