Budget Balancing Act
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Read our blog post "In the lockup: Intern with a press pass" on TVO.org: http://bit.ly/deGLZZ What are the highlights of today's federal budget? How do governments determine when to spend and when to cut? Guests: Andrew Coyne is national editor of Maclean's. He is a frequent commentator on television and radio. Visit andrewcoyne.com. Susan Delacourt is a senior writer for the Toronto Star. Finn Poschmann is Vice President of research at the C.D. Howe Institute. Erin Weir is an economist with the United Steelworkers union. He has also worked for the Canadian Labour Congress, Government of Canada, and Government of Saskatchewan. He completed degrees at the University of Regina, University of Calgary, and Queens University. Erins publications on international trade include Lies, Damned Lies and Trade Statistics, Canadian-American Public Policy Paper No. 63, University of Maine (July 2005) and Canadas Free-Trade Agreements with the USA and Mexico, in International Trade and Neoliberal Globalism (London and New York: Routledge, 2008). His commentary on trade and other economic issues is available at The Progressive Economics Forum.
