The 2017 Federal Budget was released yesterday and Portage-Lisgar Member of Parliament Candice Bergen's not too happy with what's been announced.

"The spending that was announced in the previous budget, and this one, shows very little for rural Manitoba or rural Canada. I'm a supporter of Municipalities, Cities and Towns getting money to help with their wastewater projects, and getting money to help with their infrastructure. The Liberals have announced funding, but there's no money, they haven't sent the money out. There's nothing for agriculture, in fact, there were insurance tax credits farmers and fishermen could use, and they've taken that away."

Bergen says she only had time to look over some of the bigger budget items, and it's the same thing from the Liberals.

"The Prime Minister campaigned on incurring a modest 10-billion deficit, that has ballooned and he has now, to use plain everyday language, maxed out the credit card. He's increasing the deficit and what we're seeing him do is nickel and dime Canadians to try and get money back in his coffers. We seem them already eliminate some of the tax credits that we had introduced whether they were for sports, arts, tuition and textbooks for our kids. They eliminated all of those and we've seen more of those eliminations here in this budget. The disappointing thing with all the spending they're doing, the way they're mortgaging our children's' future. there are no concrete results, the economy is stalling, it's stagnant and they haven't been able to respond to the fact that there's a need to help Canadians, to help taxpayers, to give money back to Canadian taxpayers they're just spending, spending and spending."

"Who really has to be concerned right now are millennials aged 18 and 35 who are starting out," adds Bergen. "Maybe they're in university or just graduating, or they're trying to find a job, trying to get married, or want to buy their first home, and they have a Liberal government who have saddled them with the debt. I know in previous budgets there was some excitement for small businesses and families were always looking forward to it because they knew we would be lowering taxes for them. People today were dreading the budget, they were wondering what would be the next shoe that would drop when the budget was delivered and I think what we saw was it was not good for Canadians. We have two years left of this and we'll be working as hard as we can to stop them from this kind of reckless spending, but they have a majority. So we're seeing them ram their agenda through the House of Commons at every turn. So we're working hard as the only voice of the taxpayer there."

She adds she's been looking for some good news in the budget, but so far she hasn't found anything.