Finance Minister Bill Morneau announced the federal government’s 2017 budget. Here are some of the details:
- $50,000 to re-announce what was in the 2016 budget
- $100,000 for life-sized mannequins of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to replace cardboard cutouts at all Canadian embassies
- $1.1 billion to fax briefing about innovation fund to all Canadian businesses
- Pushing back the retirement age of all military equipment from 60 to 75
- $10 million on social housing for refugees just to piss off your uncle
- $2 billion for Bombardier for old times’ sake
- $2 million to hire Judith Butler and bell hooks to lecture every government department in gender-based analysis and the intersectionality between race and gender
- Tip: 15%
