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Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne delivered the federal budget in the House of Commons on Tuesday.

Colin Busby is director of policy engagement at the C.D. Howe Institute, where Alexandre Laurin is vice-president and director of research. Don Drummond is fellow-in-residence at the C.D. Howe Institute and a Stauffer-Dunning Fellow at Queen’s University.

Ottawa’s budget lands at a pivotal moment. As Sunday’s Globe and Mail editorial put it , we have reached a fork in the road. The test for this budget was whether it would level with Canadians about the scale of the economic problems and chart a credible path forward. By that measure, the document does a good job of outlining the serious challenges Canada faces and the need to expand trade. The economic challenges, how

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