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The Carney government’s words aim at the right targets, and so do at least some of the budget’s dollars.

Many of my fellow members of the punditocracy find the budget to be a bit of a letdown. What happened to building the unimaginable at the speed of the inconceivable? Where’s the unthinkable on the timetable of the impossible? At the scale of the incomprehensible?

Where’s the revolution?

As the ex-politicos/current lobbyists who populate TV political panels have observed, it’s a case of a government overpromising and underdelivering. And as we learned on the first day of Political Marketing 101, lowering the bar before clearing it, is the way to go. Raise expectations? No, no, no.

I’m going to do some nitpicking of my own in a moment, but before we go there, can we all ack

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