Whether Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget is passed by the House of Commons on Monday or defeated – which would prompt another election and yet another distraction from Canada’s affordability crisis – it won’t make any difference to financially struggling Canadians.

His budget is an attempt to address a decade of economic mismanagement by his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, which is what happens when a government focuses on income redistribution rather than growing the economy.

Trudeau’s own words explain why.

In the 2015 election that brought him to power, Trudeau accused the nine-year government of then-prime minister Stephen Harper of having the “worst record on economic growth since (prime minister) R.B. Bennett in the depths of the Great Depression.”

It is true that growth wa

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