You call that an austerity budget?

While the media may think the Conservative government delivered an austerity budget, the reality is otherwise. The government's inability to control spending and willingness to run at least five more years of deficits will lead to a weaker, not stronger,

VANCOUVER, B.C.—"Tories launch age of austerity," screamed the front page of The Globe and Mail. The National Post applauded the plan as a "genuine effort to restore balance to the nation's books." Perhaps they were reading a different budget than the one we found on the Department of Finance's website.

According to the Oxford dictionary to be austere is to be "harsh" or "stern." And to most Canadians, a "genuine...