The days of balanced budgets in Canada are a distant memory. No government is going to try to work its way towards balance in the midst of a global pandemic and a massive economic recession. During times like this, they need to show support for those who lost their job for reasons that have nothing to do with performance or ability, and they need to shell out money for businesses, money for programs to stimulate the economy and money for the health care system that is fighting the pandemic. Granted, a lot of programs that the government introduced last year, and are continuing this year, were rushed and resulted in money going to people who didn’t need it, but there’s a lot of people who needed that assistance.