Carney government offers no compromise as budget vote looms

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s minority government is all but daring the opposition to vote down its first budget, promising Tuesday’s spending plan will confront Canada’s trade crisis with “generational” changes that speak to the priorities of all political parties.

Billed as a mixture of “austerity” and big spending, the budget will detail tens of billions of dollars in targeted savings that the Liberals tasked most government departments to find earlier this year, a senior source confirmed to the Star.

Speaking to reporters Monday in Saint-Tite, Que., Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne pledged his budget would contain ” no surprises ,” suggesting the opposition Conservatives, Bloc Québécois and New Democrats will see measures they will like. The budget, he said, wou