Council of Canadians staff are now combing through the almost 500-page Budget 2012 and we will be issuing our second "media availability" release shortly so that campaigners may be contacted for interviews on the budget measures, including:
The Canadian Press
PRO-FREE TRADE
- “Thursday’s federal budget, the seventh since Stephen Harper took office, is the first with an overtly pro-trade and resource development bent and a dearth of voter-friendly goodies. A majority mandate with three full years before the next election will do that for a conservative-minded prime minister.”
AN AUSTERITY BUDGET
- “It’s an austerity budget, whatever the government claims.”