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Here’s what’s most notable about the flurry of critical post-mortems on the Trudeau Liberal government’s first budget, including this week from the Parliamentary Budget Office itself: Nobody cares.

That is to say, some of us care; taxpayer watchdogs, a few pundits and columnists, opposition politicians and the like, care. But the average Jane and Joe appear not to give a hoot.

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Forty-nine per cent, as measured by poll aggregator Eric Grenier, supported the federal Liberals in February, up four points from January. The Rona-Ambrose-led Conservatives retained their perpetual frozen base of 29.5 per cent. Tom Mulcair’s New Democrats, for their part, continued to melt in the warm spring drizzle. They clung to 12.5 per cent in February, which according to Grenier may be the NDP’s worst single month since 2003.

But here’s the thing about those numbers: They can’t last. They never do. And the Liberals, with the prime minister himself leading the way, are behaving as though they will.