Roundup: Budget madness, 2017 edition

So, there was a budget yesterday, but not an exciting one. It’s a lot of vision, not a lot of numbers, mostly fleshing out last year’s budget without a lot of new money, but hey, “innovation!” Oh, and no pathway to balance, but hey, debt-to-GDP remains stable, which is what counts.

But I’ll leave the analysis to some people who are more qualified than I.

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Also from the budget:

Good reads:

  • Procedural warfare continued at the Procedure and House Affairs committee over that discussion paper on changes to the Standing Orders.
  • The Senate Ethics Committee hasn’t made a determination about Senator Meredith because they haven’t heard from him yet (and may not for some time).
  • Canadian and NATO officials are trying to figure out rules of what constitutes a major cyber-attack as part of our imminent deployment to Latvia.
  • Ruh-roh! It turns out that Maxime Bernier’s membership chair was accused of membership fraud in Ontario in 2010.