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Highlights of the 2020 Shadow Budget\'s measures to support economic growth are changes to personal and corporate income taxes that will encourage talent and investment, elimination of distorting taxes and border frictions, more focused infrastructure investments, and measures to support Canada\'s labour market The Shadow Budget would foster opportunity and well-being by supporting saving for, and income in, retirement, establishing more generous treatment for medical expenses, supporting charitable giving, and implementing a more growth-friendly strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with a new GST rate on motive fuels The government spent the bulk of this bonus, so the deficit came in almost as projected Since 2015/16, actual expenses have exceeded budget expectations by a cumulative $13 2 billion - Ottawa\'s sticking to its budgets would have almost wiped out last year\'s deficit 1 Voting ourselves benefits, and passing forward the part of the bill we are not willing to pay ourselves, is neither fair nor economically sensible Parallel with the promise to give Canadians confidence in the federal government\'s fiscal framework and the longer-term prospects for Canada\'s economy is a commitment to greater transparency and accountability in the budgeting process
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