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Over the years, Caledon typically has assessed the quality of any given federal Budget from the perspective of two lenses: the attention it pays to social well-being, in general, and the degree to which it helps lower- and modest-income Canadians with respect to social well-being and income security, in particular. [...] The purpose of the announced stream of innovation investments is to support economic opportunities in selected sectors and to foster new methods and technologies in existing sectors of the economy. [...] The related goal of infrastructure investment identified in the 2017 Budget seeks to repair, upgrade and build the roads, sewers, clean water facilities, ports and bridges that keep the economy moving, and that contribute to a higher standard of living. [...] Unfortunately, the accounting for new funds in the Budget document is not provided as a clear list of initiatives linked to descriptions in the document (this problem applies to many areas of the Budget). [...] But by the mid-1960s, reflecting the prevalent social activism of the times, the federal role began increasingly to include active engagement in the construction and ongoing support of social and affordable housing.