Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tables the federal budget in the House of Commons as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looks on, in Ottawa on April 7, 2022. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld
Nobody expected an austerity budget from the Liberal government this year, thus nobody was terribly surprised to see spending go almost $90 billion higher in the 2022 budget than it was in the pre-pandemic 2019 budget. Balanced budgets and fiscal restraint have never been priorities for the Trudeau government.
