The announcement of Ottawa and Alberta signing off on a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on a pipeline from Alberta to the BC Coast is welcome, but barely a baby step in the right direction.

For a budget that was advertised as “big, bold” and set to “supercharge” the Canadian economy, the budget delivered today by Finance Minister Francois-Phillippe Champagne held few surprises and was mediocre at best.

The Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businesses Canada (CCMBC) today launched a billboard campaign to highlight the reality that the vast majority of Canada’s current challenges have much more to do with harmful policies of the federal Liberal government and some provincial governments than they do with Washington DC.