When you have been calling for something for years and it finally turns up, it’s churlish to nitpick. So, I won’t.

The 2025 federal budget is clearly not a one-and-done exercise. It will take more than a single document to compensate for a decade of mismanagement — and it will be judged years from now on its results, rather than its intentions.

But it has the right priorities: attempting to end the stagnation that has seen Canada hurtle backwards in terms of economic dynamism, and trying to rebuild the Canadian Armed Forces before they are needed.

This country has effectively banned investment in a number of sectors, making it hard to build anything anywhere.

The budget focuses on trying to make it easier to invest in homes, railways, roads, bridges and nuclear reactors — things that

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