Despite the Trudeau Liberals spending 8½ years throwing large sums of money at every problem that comes our way, a majority of Canadians think the country is fundamentally broken. Now, the Grits are trying to convince us that the answer to the problems they either helped create or failed to fix is … spending large sums of money.

In the lead-up to Tuesday’s budget, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland deviated from her tradition in recent years of spending the weeks leading up to budget day trying to convince Canadians that the government was planning on showing fiscal restraint.