Roundup: Continuing the budget reactions

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Now that the budget is out, and people have had a little more time to digest it, more reactions are pouring in. Without further ado, let’s review some of them:

  • AFN national chief RoseAnne Archibald says the budget failed to make progress on a new “economic deal” with First Nations.
  • The aviation industry has some mixed feelings about the measures to address delays.
  • Veterans groups are afraid that they may face possible cuts, because the budget was vague on commitments to their needs.
  • Public sector unions welcome the cap on outsourcing, but are worried about coming cuts as part of the programme review.
  • Humanitarian groups are decrying the $1.3 billion cut to foreign aid in the budget, which is moving further away from our goals.
  • The proposed mortgage code of conduct is welcomed, but there is almost nothing else in the budget around the housing crisis.
  • Here is how the alcohol industry says they got the government to back down on the planned escalator tax.
  • There are hints as to how the assault-style weapon buyback will be handled.
  • Quebec already wants to opt-out of the not-yet created federal dental care programme (with full compensation, of course).

Meanwhile, the debt bomb “it’s 1995 and will always be 1995” crowd is lighting their hair over the deficit, even though it’s really not that big, and it’s not 1995.

https://twitter.com/BrettEHouse/status/1641196835468374017

Ukraine Dispatch:

Ukrainian forces are saying that Russians have had some limited success in Bakhmut in recent days, while there are concerns that Russians have been significantly increasing the number of troops around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which they are occupying. Here is a look at how president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been travelling across the country recently. Zelenskyy says he has invited Xi Jinping to Ukraine, since China wants to play a role in peace talks, but he hasn’t heard back.

https://twitter.com/ukraine_world/status/1641149869975797774

Good reads:

  • The Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission report is being released today.
  • Ahmed Hussen and the CMHC have made amendments to the regulations barring foreign homebuyers because many of the original rules didn’t make sense.
  • There are reports that RCMP officers are in Syria, interviewing Canadians in detention camps ahead of their repatriation (where they will likely face charges).
  • Here is an interesting look at how the recent intelligence leaks have rattled CSIS, which was already an organisation in crisis and in need of overhaul.
  • Following the testimony of Walmart and Costco at committee, experts say that it’s unlikely they are stoking inflation, but rather providing competition in the market.
  • Jagmeet Singh is making threatening noises about pharmacare, without acknowledging that nine premiers are to blame including David Eby.
  • Newfoundland and Labrador are trying to make the case for their “low-carbon” offshore oil, erm, except there’s no such thing as low-carbon oil.
  • Recordings have been released that show Danielle Smith saying she was talking “almost weekly” with prosecutors about COVID charges. (Yikes!)
  • Kevin Carmichael explores the options Chrystia Freeland had with the budget, and why she had very little choice but to choose the path she did.
  • Stephen Saideman explains why culture change in the military is imperative to improve its readiness, and is not the distraction some claim.

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