Restoring purpose: a shadow federal budget for 2005.

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After more than a decade of sluggish income growing boosting Canadian's living standards requires more than rhetoric. Restoring a faculty of perception of purpose requires tax relief, steady due reduction, a major review of federal-provincial transfers and discretionary spending targeted upon areas where federal programs can deliver meaningful ensues

Canada's muscular economic performance in 2004 masked continued deterioration in the federal government's capacity to young ox resources to key priorities and bring Canadians' tax burden. increase in spending has far outpaced