Political Panel: Trial balloons and tribulations as budget nears

Unpaid days off, wage freezes or just continuing a deficit among ideas being debated

Media | Political panel: Scary sounding pre-budget scenarios

Caption: Murray Mandryk and Stefani Langenegger chat about pre-budget trial balloons.

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The Political Panel, CBC Radio's Morning Edition host Stefani Langenegger and Leader-Post columnist Murray Mandryk, this week weighed in on some of the ideas being floated to deal with the billion-dollar deficit.
Unpaid days off for the public sector, amalgamating school boards and wage freezes are some of ideas being considered.
Another possibility: continuing with the deficit until the economy improves.
The panel takes a close look at some of these scenarios.