This was another strong week for Harper in the minds of the panel of CEOs and business leaders. The federal budget and most of its elements earn high or very high performance scores. Harper’s budget replaces Klein’s as the model of the excellent budget in panellists’ minds.
Panellists embrace

• the military-security commitments,
• corporate tax cuts, and
  
• the GST cut and the daycare commitment, albeit in part because they approve of governments that carry out their promises rather than because they uniformly embrace these provisions, which they do not.
  

Aid for farmers elicits more support from the panel than it would have in the past.

The government earns strong praise for the softwood agreement.

These are the key findings from the past week’s web survey of the COMPAS CEO and business leader panel undertaken for The Financial Post under sponsorship of BDO Dunwoody LLP.

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