Canada needs a budget delivered on time. Here’s how to do it

Since Canada was born in 1867, there has always been an annual full federal budget presented until 2020, the initial COVID-19 year, when, shockingly, there was no budget. There were annual budgets presented during the First and Second World Wars, the Great Depression years from 1929 until the 1930s and even with unstable minority governments — such as the Joe Clark government of 1979. Most countries around the world, including developing countries, also have a standard protocol to release an annual budget in advance.