Does Canada really need a stimulus package?
By James Havers, Sympatico / MSN Finance
How times have changed.
Federal Budgets were once very staid affairs, with the allure of the Finance Minister's new pair of shoes the only photo-op for journalists looking for an angle. That, and maybe an increase in the tax on a case of beer.
The Liberals' fundamental shift in the '90s away from deficit spending towards surpluses and debt-pay down drew a lot of attention, for a while anyway. But that became expected after a while, and hardly even newsworthy.