Having Minister Flaherty and other MPs use social media to help announce this year's budget is something we hope to see in future years. The government tried to focus the discussion around its branded hashtag of #eap13, but in the social sphere the tags #bdgt13 and #canpoli soon dominated the conversation.
As tweets flew and we shared our own updates via @canadaone one thing became clear: the 2013 budget is much thinner than those we have covered in past years.
Yet as we dug deeper into Budget 2013 we found a few surprises, including new criminal charges related to the development, possession, use or sale of "zapper" technologies that can help a business hide sales from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).
Here is a look at highlights from this year's "Economic Action Plan" — both the mundane and obscure elements — from a small business owner's viewpoint, as well as a selection of the tweets from the past two days.
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