Half empty, I say

My Saturday column trashes the Finance minister's desultory fiscal update/economic plan -- a damp squib if ever there was one. Once again, Ibbitson sees exactly the opposite. BACKGROUND: Here's Flaherty's economic plan, called (imaginatively) Advantage Canada. Also see the Economic and Fiscal Update. For comparison, see Harris and Manning, Building Prosperity, part of their Canada Strong and Free series of policy papers for the Fraser Institute. BONUS: From the C. D. Howe Institute, the case for a lower inflation target. Also a package of useful pro-growth tax reforms, falling somewhere between Flaherty and Harris-Manning.