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Rob Csernyik is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail.

As anyone under age 40 knows, generational gaps cause sore spots in discussions about getting ahead. Some people who came through their economic milestones decades ago don’t understand how different the path is today, or how many obstacles litter it. Budget 2025 shows that the Carney Liberals also suffer from this mismatch between affordability and ambition, and a lack of reality of how tough it is out there on Main Street.

The Canada Strong budget presented flexes of the country’s economic ambition and bravado in ways that seem new.

Federal budget basics

Here are the highlights of the Carney government’s plan, and how they might affect your personal finances.

Its buzzword-laden goal is apparently to turn us

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