Budget hopes. What am I hoping for in today’s federal budget? What I always hope for: A credible plan to balance the budget and reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio. Lower tax rates applied to broader tax bases — those bases made broader by reducing exemptions and deductions, so as to let Canadians, not politicians, decide where their priorities lie. Withdrawal of the federal government from provincial jurisdictions like health care, dental care and child care. And........

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