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Budget Plan 2004

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Introduction and Overview.

Chapter 2 - Economic Developments and Prospects.

Chapter 3 - Sound Financial Management.

Chapter 4 - Moving Forward on the Priorities of Canadians.

Chapter 4.1 - The Importance of Health.

Chapter 4.2 - The Importance of Learning.

Chapter 4.3 - The Importance of Knowledge and Commercialization.

Chapter 4.4 - The Importance of Communities.

Chapter 4.5 - The Importance of Canada's Relationship to the World.

Annexes

1 - Update on Federal Tax Reductions and Tax Measures to Support Economic and Social Objectives, Enhance Tax Fairness and Improve the Tax Structure.

2 - Fiscal Performance of Canada's Federal-Provincial-Territorial Government Sector.

3 - Canada's Financial Performance in an International Context.

4 - The Budgetary Balance, Financial Source/Requirement, and National Accounts Budget Balance.

5 - The Air Travellers Security Charge and Notice of Ways and Means Motion to Amend the Air Travellers Security Charge Act.

6 - Renewing Equalization and Territorial Formula Financing.

7 - The Importance of Productivity Growth to the Long-Term Well-Being of Canadians.

8 - The Government's Response to the Auditor General's Observations on the 2003 Financial Statements.

9 - Tax Measures:  Supplementary Information and Notices of Ways and Means Motion.