Canada's Austerity Budget Wonderland

by Dave Broad | Canada’s federal and provincial governments are falling in with other Western countries in delivering austerity budgets that foist costs of the global capitalist crisis onto the backs of workers and the poor.  Canada’s federal government is trying to package its latest austerity budget as something that must be done to reduce government debts and deficits but really won’t hurt too bad.  Listening to the spin put on this is much like a trip through Alice’s surreal Wonderland. Read more…[[http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2012/broad020412.html#_edn1][ ]]