Budget to focus on middle class as fewer Canadians identify as middle class
OTTAWA — Computer programmer David Galvin should be the quintessential beneficiary of next week’s federal budget, which is expected to continue the Liberals’ persistent rhetoric and focus on bolstering the middle class.
He is educated, has had a career in advanced technology and lives in the economic heartland of southern Ontario.
But Galvin no longer includes himself in the middle class.
Like a growing number of Canadians, the 65-year-old from Hamilton says he has fallen behind — and that’s a challenge, experts say, to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s approach to fiscal policy.