We will see in budget who Trudeau chooses to disappoint

  • National Newswatch

Justin Trudeau will not go to bed on Monday night enjoying universal popularity. Like Stephen Harper before him, he inspires in some of us a truly deranged antipathy. But Finance Minister Bill Morneau's first budget, to be tabled Tuesday in Ottawa, will be Trudeau's first chance to formally disappoint a lot of people who have invested an awful lot of hope in him and his agenda.Canada's cities are lined up waiting for their transit and social housing cheques. Bilan Arte, national chairwoman of the Canadian Federation of Students, has called for nothing less than “a bold plan to save this generation” from its student loans. The middle class is expecting tangible monetary relief — and everyone thinks they're middle class. Alberta and the Atlantic provinces want employment insurance reform.