Federal budget cuts to impact some Ottawa pleasures

It will take at least six months before measures like reduced museum hours or increased ticket prices come into effect, an economist says.

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Cuts in the federal budget could affect Ottawa mainstays ranging from museum hours to Canada Day celebrations. Article content

But it will take may take six months before Ottawa residents notice how the cuts are affecting local services. Or they may never know, says David Macdonald, an economist who connects the dots between annual departmental estimates of how money is spent and the figures that appear in the budget. Article content Article content

“There are several sources of information. You have to put it back together,” said Macdonald, a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, an independent think