Politics: do Canadians care about balancing the budget?

Self-tutoring about politics: the tutor continues about the idea of balancing the budget.

Supposedly, 77 percent of Canadians think the next government should balance the budget. Yet, last I read, no major party is offering to do so during the coming mandate. To my knowledge, the Conservatives and Greens both offer to balance the budget after 5 years.

Why, if 77 percent of Canadians want a balanced budget, aren’t the parties all striving to do so immediately? The likely reason is that Canadians might be less decisive about how important balancing the budget is: while 77 percent think it’s ideal, only 31 percent think it’s the leading priority. Sixty-nine percent see it backseat to something else.

So, to wrap up: 77 percent of Canadians see balancing the budget as important. Sixty-nine percent see another government priority (either program spending or tax cuts) as more important than balancing the budget.

Very decisively Canadian:)

Source:

globalnews.ca

ipolitics.ca

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