To the extent that his budgets have any focus at all, they tend to be aimed at supporting what passes for an agenda in Stephen Harper's Ottawa: use targeted spending and boutique tax cuts to micro-target the electorate and keep the Conservative base ginned up, while doing just enough on the fiscal front to keep Bay Street more or less onside. (canadianbusiness.com)
However, room for manoeuvre on the fiscal front in most advanced economies (AEs) was soon exhausted, and attention had to turn to fiscal consolidation as opposed to expansion. (bankofcanada.ca)
Hammadi emphasises Hollande's justice theme: «The most important issue is the question of justice — between rich and poor, on the fiscal front, in cities and tackling ghettoization, and most important of all justice for youth and a generational contract.» (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)