Budget Day!

Well, gather round folks, since it's budget day today! Everyone can get in line for their little goodies. Everyone gets something, unless if you happen to be poor or aboriginal. Looks like some Quebecois are happy and will vote for it.

So now the main questions are:

1. How will this affect the Quebec election, with the Bloc voting in favour of it now?

2. Will we be seeing a federal election soon? Not necessarily that it will cause one, but is it strong enough for the opposition to go to war on, or strong enough for Harper to defend?

Only time will tell, but at least from first glance, it's not a full goody-bag of stuff that nobody in their right mind could refuse.

*edit: after a bit of reflection, and after reading A BCer in TO's recap, I have to say that there's really nothing in there that you can complain about directly. No big income tax cuts for large corporations, or direct tax hikes for the poor (we still have the indirect hike from rolling back the Liberal tax plan, but it's not explicitly mentioned). We'd all like to see some money go into something else, and less money go into that fiscal imbalance (although if it really end the problem for good, then I'll be happy), but it's not something that will be keeping me awake and worried about what the government is doing to us. Definitely not enough to go into an election war on, but still enough to be able to reject it without looking bad.