AUDIO: The 2023 Federal Budget's Hidden Austerity

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AUDIO: The 2023 Federal Budget's Hidden Austerity

With all the talk of new spending and subsidies, it's easy to overlook the budget's warning shot to public sector workers.

Jeremy Appel

Mar 31, 2023

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The 2023 Federal Budget's Hidden Austerity

Media coverage of budget 2023 has largely focused on a few major spending items and understandably so — that’s what budgets are largely made of. But an excessive focus on new expenditures comes at the expense…

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