Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne, left, shakes hands with Prime Minister Mark Carney after delivering his budget speech in the House of Commons on Tuesday.

Federal budget basics

Here are the highlights of the Carney government’s plan, and how they might affect your personal finances.

The federal government plans to make 75 legislative changes through the budget process, adopting a practice that has been criticized as a way of curtailing debate by burying contentious measures in omnibus bills.

The changes include bringing back a restriction on cash payments over $10,000 that had been cut from an earlier bill. Other changes would give the Canada Infrastructure Bank a $10-billion boost and accelerate the development of high-speed rail.

The government has not confirmed how

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