Carney’s big federal budget bets

The federal budget was unveiled Thursday afternoon, and it lays out some of the big bets the Carney government plans on making in the years ahead. A $36-billion tax break to kickstart an “investment supercycle”. A number of affordability measures. A plan to end homelessness within a decade. 

But those bets also raise some uncomfortable questions.

Can we really fast track huge nation building projects and still hit our climate goals? How much debt are we taking on to pay for it all? And will any of this actually make life more affordable?

CBC senior parliamentary writer Aaron Wherry was in the budget lockup, and he’s here to break it all down.

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