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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.

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Jeremy Appel
Mar 30, 2023
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nFinance Minister Chrystia Freeland and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau awkwardly embrace after unveiling last year’s budget. (Flickr/Justin Trudeau)

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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