Only Minor Changes to New Budget: Flaherty

The federal budget will be tabled next month in one of the Conservatives' first acts as a majority government.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said that the government's new budget, to be tabled sometime in June, will more or less replicate the one released in March, albeit with some unspecified minor changes included from the Conservative election platform. Flaherty hasn't elaborated on what changes those might be, but the original document, which wasn't voted on before the House of Commons fell, projected that the government would erase the country's deficit by 2015-16. During the election, however, the Tories vowed to bring the ledger back into the black a year earlier, with a surplus of $2.8 billion expected. Pity the poor political journalists who must scour through the new document for any changes after going through the budgetary lockup once already this year.

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