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Justin Trudeau and Budget Deficit

Conservative agenda: While Justin Trudeau Liberals may be spinning their wheels on some big items, such as the size of its budget deficit, the scope of its missing and murdered indigenous women inquiry or the regional tensions engendered by its imminent decision on a $1-billion bailout or stake in Bombardier, it is proving much more adept at tearing down the Conservative house, according to Hamilton Spectator. It as if the new government stole into that old Conservative neighbourhood armed with a pressure washer and starting cleaning that unsightly graffiti off the walls. Would successive governments be unwilling or unable to lift the rocks and get at the philosophical underpinnings of almost a decade of Harper Turns out, a lot of the Conservative agenda can be overturned, and rather quickly. It started early with the announcement of the restoration of the long-form census. It also suspended all court action against First Nations which did not comply with the legislation. Liberals have overturned the closing of veterans offices, pledged to reverse funding cuts to the CBC, overturned two pieces of legislation it considered punitive to labour and restored funding to First Nations which had been frozen under the previous government transparency act. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.