It’s been just over a week since the federal budget was tabled amid a grueling third wave of COVID-19 infections and lockdowns. If you’re looking for an anchor in the storm, Budget 2021 is a safe bet. It is a dense document by any measure - over 700 pages in English, more in French - and if you manage to make it to the end, you’re greeted by annexes chock-full of impact analysis. (Annex 5 alone is 169 pages and “considers how each Budget 2021 measure affects Canadians - both who is most affected and the nature of the impacts at a high level.”)