Positive Outcomes from Budget 2015

The Canadian federal budget for 2015 was announced yesterday, and it brings with it some consumer-friendly benefits. Dealing with a surplus this year, the government is able to provide some of the things it had promised in years past. Commitments unveiled throughout that period, including boosting the Universal Childcare Benefit, doubling a tax credit for youth fitness and income splitting, were all included in Tuesday’s budget. Those measures are among a short list promised to Canadians in 2011, when Prime Minister Stephen Harper campaigned on them, promising to implement then so long as the government was able to balance its books. [Global News] Some of…