By Matt Prokopchuk, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, TBnewswatch.com THUNDER BAY — Northern Ontario has a lot to gain in the federal budget tabled by the Mark Carney government says one of the Thunder Bay area’s Liberal MPs. Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne presented the first federal budget under Carney’s leadership Wednesday afternoon. It projects a $78 billion deficit, while targeting spending to boost investment and domestic productivity amid cuts to federal programs and the civil service. Thunder Bay-Superior North MP and Liberal cabinet minister Patty Hajdu said the budget’s commitment to building more — with over $50 billion committed to infrastructure spending “in a very short time” — will help northern Ontario. “For northern Ontario, it really met the mark, in particular in the space of investment and community infrastructure,” Hajdu

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