Here's how the 2023 federal budget will affect you

Tax expert Tim Cestnick explains how the federal budget will impact affordability for food costs, housing and RESP savings.

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[lorenzomabalos]

The 2023 federal budget will STILL NOT balance itself, and I'm sick of paying for it to be balanced magically.

[domsanchez]

I would like a government grant that would subsidize the construction of a guillotine.

[robertb]

Excess government spending is literally what helped cause this inflation. This budget will result in more inflation not less. Please don't fall for it.

[friendlyadvice]

What % goes to paying government wages and their staff?

[middleeastbeauty]

Less cost for alcohol but more for food ?!? Trudeau needs to try and live on the average income in Canada and see if he can do it with a measly couple hundred dollars for a 1 TIME payment.

[friendlyadvice]

How much does it cost to process all the different rebates? Why not just tax less and save paying for all the calculations to process rebates? It probably makes too much sense...

[politicallydisgruntled.]

This grocery rebate won't even cover one week of groceries for a family of four. Give a quarter from one hand, and take a dollar with the other.

[chrisbrunette]

We don’t need hand outs we need a responsible government with way less taxes.

[winstonsmith]

Nothing for Canadians but more hardship, Trudeau has no room to maneuver.

[cindymay]

What a joke. Freeland can wear the new shoes that she's been parading around on Twitter right out the front door of the legislature..

[logiczchance]

why don't they cover eye care? aren't eyes also part of health care?

[peterbutz]

46 billion dollars a year for interest alone and these geniuses want to add on more lord help the future generations

[jodytollefson]

Trudeau also wants to decide for you what you see on youtube a bill called C-11. Trudeau has to go.

[clairdenning]

For the average farmer who pays tens of thousands in carbon tax the only thing that would have helped was dropping the carbon tax. These little hundred dollar bribes are of no use.

[jeffspicolli]

What we have is a government spending money trying to deficit fund prosperity.
It's interesting that these continuing deficits somewhat match the $68 Billion now required to service the interest payments on our record (now doubled) national debt.
"Since March 2020, the federal government has spent or planned to spend $576 billion in new measures — but more than a third, $204.5 billion, of this spending has nothing to do with the COVID-19 pandemic according to an analysis by the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO)".

[gamingbigfats]

Stop Taxing Canadians to death! Cancel the useless “carbon tax”.

[joyceprovost]

Better than nothing?
That's all we get from our government?
Not really any help at all 😡

[valhallaix]

Lol what a joke this government is so disassociated from the average Canadian it's so bad at this point its not even funny.

[GrizzlyStoned]

One time "grocery rebate" of $240 that's not even required to be spent on groceries. Problem solved?

[neilkale]

with inflation Canadians will actually lose ground with this budget