An inept budget that corrodes the process.

Argues that Finance Don Mazankowski's budget papers reveal in devastating terms just how shoddy and unreliable the whole Canadian budget-process has become. About the only bottom line that mattered was the 1992-93 fiscal deficit, whose publication caused the Canadian Bond Rating Service to downgrade the country's credit standing. History of the deficit total; Unreliable statistics on economic growth; Speculation by investment expert Roy Bennett that Canada's economy would crash.