The Government's Budget Is Not Raising Taxes

With inflation still running high and interest rates pinching people's pocketbooks a lot of people are looking for some kind of government help. We spoke with personal finance columnist Rob Carrick about what's being offered in this budget. The marquee Measure is the grocery rebate, which is just fancy branding for an extended version of a previous Extra amount of GST tax credit that was paid to people It'd be about four hundred plus dollars for an eligible family with two kids And I calculated that it would be about a little less than nine dollars a week So you could all leave the listeners to judge whether that's going to make a difference in their lives.