OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney secured broad support from across party lines and provincial borders for some major items in his first federal budget, new polling suggests.

But one pollster warns Carney risks reopening old regional wounds if he doesn’t show progress soon on critical infrastructure and housing files.

Leger polling this week showed broad support among respondents for a number of flagship proposals in the budget tabled on Nov. 4.

The budget forecast a deficit of $78.3 billion for this fiscal year and pitched billions of dollars in net new spending aimed at pivoting Canada’s economy away from reliance on the United States.

Some 76 per cent of those surveyed were in favour of the Liberals’ proposed 10-year, $51-billion local infrastructure fund. Reduced immigration targ

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