text: Infrastructure spending, the bulk of which will happen toward end of Trudeau's first term and beyond, looks perfectly dove-tailed to recession around 2018 or 2019. Recessions happen routinely and predictably approximately every 10 years. The infrastructure program is well-timed to mitigate the impact. Meanwhile, child benefit increase last July sparked the economy. The bar chart shows the correlation and economists agree.
  
  The move to $15 an hour minimum wage in Ontario will likely start a shift toward the long-awaited rise in incomes across the board, the area that has lagged most throughout the last twenty years.