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OTTAWA — It’s been just over six months since the Liberal government promised to begin cranking up its fiscal assault on a worn down Canadian economy. Since then, not much has really changed — growth remains slow and employment numbers continue to see-saw.

But infrastructure money is now trickling into communities and tax benefits are reaching middle-class families.

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“We took a prudent decision in our (March) budget that the kinds of measures that we took are going to start making an impact of the economy,” Finance Minister Bill Morneau said Thursday after meeting in Toronto with a dozen of the country’s top private-sector economists ahead of a fiscal update, expected next month.

“And what we’ll be doing … is giving Canadians a clear sense of where the economy is today and what we see it in the future,” Morneau told reporters following the closed-door discussions with economists.

“The things that we have done so far — cuts in taxes for middle-class Canadians, the introduction of Canada Child Benefit help families, and the long-term objective of improving pension outcomes through enhancement in the Canada Pension Plan — do deal with that anxiety,” the minister said.