In the run-up to the federal budget later this month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been announcing new measures that will appear in that budget — a break with the tradition of keeping it under wraps, but a political move that makes some sense.
Past polling conducted by the government itself has long shown that there is very little recall of what’s in a budget. Here today, gone tomorrow. Budget day is a big show, but there’s so much to cover that a lot of it goes in one ear and out the other.
The Liberals appear to have concluded that announcing morsels of the budget ahead of time gives them a little bit more time to breathe rather than risk them getting lost in the morass of numbers and reactions to those numbers that dominate political coverage for about 24 to 48 hours . . . .
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