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goodale-martin-th.jpg (24946 bytes) Finance Minister Ralph Goodale and Prime Minister Paul Martin smile as they enter the House of Commons, where Goodale presented the  Liberal government's eighth straight balanced budget.
goodale-budget-th.jpg (21441 bytes) Finance Minister Ralph Goodale enters the House of Commons Feb. 23 to present the Liberals' 2005 budget.
barr-feb23-th.jpg (24906 bytes) Those waiting for the Liberal government to "make poverty history" in Canada will have to come back another day, said Gerry Barr, president of the Canadian Council for International Co-operation, following the release of the federal budget Feb. 23.
rothman-feb23-th.jpg (17505 bytes) Campaign 2000 national coordinator Laurel Rothman says the organization is "very distressed" that the federal budget failed to deliver on low-cost housing pledged in the Liberals' election campaign.

 

 
howlett-feb23-th.jpg (30618 bytes) "We are disappointed there's nothing (in the federal budget) on social housing," says Dennis Howlett, executive director of the National Anti-Poverty Organization.
wilson_christopher-th.jpg (25194 bytes) "In spite of the fact there are millions of Canadians who lack decent, affordable, housing, there was nothing in the budget for housing," said Christopher Wilson, of the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada. "And the Liberals promised $1.5 billion in the last election."
vandergrift-th.jpg (24799 bytes) "It is time for the federal government to follow through on a 30-year promise to bring aid spending to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income," said Kathy Vandergrift, World Vision Canada's policy director, following the release of Budget 2005.
turk-th.jpg (25812 bytes) "This budget absolutely failed post-secondary education," said Jim Turk, executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers."It does nothing to help students and families that are coping with record high tuition levels."

 
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Canadian Medical Association president Albert Schumacher wishes the federal government  had paid equal attention in its budget to "the human resource issues plaguing health care," as it did to helping the understaffed Canadian Forces.