Our stimulus budget

Not bad, but not good enough either. That's my personal take on the budget.

I like:

• most of the infrastructure spending, particularly that earmarked for post-secondary schools, the environment and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation.
• (an aside on the environment... it's definitely not enough, but for this government? A huge step.)
• the workforce retraining budgets
• At last, people on welfare don't get penalized if they find a job, thanks to the doubling of doubling the Working Income Tax Benefit.
• All the business tax measures. Business success is what creates jobs. They need all the breaks they can get.
• Anything that helps the First Nations on the road to respect and self-sufficiency gets my vote

But I'm very disappointed in most of the personal tax cuts, with the attending expectation that we're going to spend more. A few hundred dollars more in my pocket every year will not affect my spending, so that money would have been so better off on more tangible activities, like schools, housing, etc.

But overall, not bad. They get a B minus from me.