Making infrastructure investments, defending existing trade arrangements and pursuing new ones are certainly good candidates for boosting Canada’s economic potential. But when we move from theory to practice, how big can those effects be?
The fiscal stimulus packages and other measures have led to sharp increase in the revenue and fiscal deficits which, in the face of slowing private investment, have cushioned the pace of economic activity. BIS Review 63/2009  3  The first order of economic business for the new government will be the full budget.