"Mr. Morneau said the budget will focus on helping Canadian workers upgrade their skills throughout their careers in an economy where the skills that are in demand are changing rapidly."

How many times do you expect someone over 40 to upgrade their skills by retraining? Most cannot be hired because of age, like it or not.

The middle class today has the most unstable situation but everyone else depends on it. Governments, seniors, and non-working Canadians all live off the middle class taxes. But the government allowed their situation to be very fluid and unstable. Their mortgage, fixed expenses, schooling for their children, their healthcare as they get older, all are long term stable commitments in a middle class that an no longer have a long term job to maintain all these responsibilities and burdens.

Would it not be better for government to solidify the foundations under the middle class instead of throwing at them crumbs and adding to their instability?