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https://policyoptions.irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/WordPress-Image-8-27.jpg2000700When Stephen Harper’s minority Conservatives introduced the 2010 budget earlier this year, all eyes were on how the government would manage to reconcile its spending commitments to the provinces for health care, arguably the most expensive social program in Canada, in the context of the economic downturn. For Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, the answer was […]