This is a too kind article about a do-little federal budget. "... the total new funding allocated to the innovation agenda is, at best, modest in the context of a $2-trillion economy, and its impact will be incremental rather than transformational" about sums it up.  The budget is bold words and a small increase in spending sometime away in the future. Or as Bill Morneau puts it, this budget is just Chapter 2 and he wants the middle class to be "optimistic". You could also say the strategy is to sit tight and hope the mighty U.S. economy will eventually pull us out of the doldrums. Aside from the stock market and a torrid real estate market in key metropolitan areas, what else is humming? The Bank of Canada keeps telling us we have a substantial amount of slack in the economy. How long will Canadians be captivated by the do-little big-talking Liberals?