The déjà vu all over again budget

The fiscal shot in the arm, though necessary, was a shot in the dark. [...] The impact of stim- ulus spending in the board rooms, on factory floors and in the pocket books of the nation will be known only after the economy is clearly out of recession and the economists do their analyses. [...] Over the last decade, the number of students assisted has fallen from about 30,000 to 20,000 due to the crunch between rising tuition and living costs, and constrained increases in the Support Program. [...] The Speech, read the day prior to the Budget, recognized a significant social innovation in the country in which citizens, businesses and charitable groups join forces to tackle local problems. [...] Budget 2010 announced a significant change in the Universal Child Care Benefit, one of the federal government’s three child benefit programs − the Canada Child Tax Benefit and the nonrefundable child tax credit being the other two.