Editorial - Balance Restored

Winnipeg Free Press (February 27, 2008)

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NDP Leader Jack Layton and Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe predictably denounced the budget and demanded an election, gestures as empty as their rhetoric given that they knew there would be no election -- Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion will support the budget. "I don't see enough in this budget that would justify that we precipitate an election," he said, by which Canadians can conclude he sees too much in the budget to dare fight one.

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Editorial - Balance Restored

WHILE it would be premature to say that federal finances have achieved an even keel, there was evidence in the budget Tuesday that fiscal calm is at ...

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