With a focus on jumpstarting the economy and ramping up Canada’s military spending, the first federal budget from the Liberal government under Prime Minister Mark Carney is receiving mixed reactions in northeastern Ontario.

With a proposed $78 billion deficit and $141 billion in new spending, Parry Sound-Muskoka MP Scott Aitchison echoed Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in saying the party will not endorse this budget in its current form.

Aitchison told CBC News he was also expecting more on housing.

"There was nothing new on housing in this budget,” he said.

“They've announced a couple of things, a new bureaucracy called Build Canada Homes. They’ve also promised over and over again that they were going to get development charges … cut in half and make it cheaper to get building, b

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