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Guest: Tonda MacCharles, Ottawa Bureau Chief
The new federal budget spends $497 billion in all manner of ways, with a host of new green incentives, a grocery rebate for some Canadians and a dental care plan for others. The rich will be taxed more, there is money for the development of a lunar rover vehicle but there is no allotment to help bail out Toronto from its budget shortfall.
This episode was produced by Alexis Green, Paulo Marques and Raju Mudhar.
Audio sources: CBC and CPAC
The WE Charity controversy continues to rage on for the Liberal government and this week, the first victim has been claimed. Finance Minister Bill Morneau and MP of Toronto-Centre resigned from his post on Monday. And less than 24 hours after Morneau’s resignation, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is brought into the fold with a cabinet shuffle, becoming Canada’s first female finance minister. Tonda MacCharles, senior reporter on federal politics for the Toronto Star, talks to Adrian Cheung about Morneau’s resignation, the controversy Trudeau finds himself engulfed in (again), and the emerging image of a federal government sliding into crisis.
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