The over-riding need is to raise the economic growth rate. But more government plans and agencies are not the way to do it

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Prime Minister Mark Carney has promised the federal budget that will be tabled in the House of Commons this afternoon — a year and a half since the past one — will address persistent economic problems and a shattered trade relationship with the U.S. The Canadian economy is in poor shape and getting worse, with declining GDP/capita, weak GDP growth, almost seven per cent........

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