Trudeau betting most Canadians don’t really care about deficits
Anyone watching closely was able to roughly guess the size of the $29.4-billion deficit before the government unveiled it in Tuesday’s federal budget. But when it was there in black and white, it was still a shock for the policy wonks and pundits reading it. And there was no zero further along in the tables – no reassuring projection that in four or five years, the books will be balanced again.
