So you wanna be the finance minister? See how you do balancing Ottawa's books

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Think you know what it takes to balance a budget? The Tories will lay out plans to get back to black in Thursday's federal budget.

If you were in charge, what would you cut to get our finances in order? Would you raise taxes, cut foreign aid, trim transfers?

It's a painful process and to give you an idea of how hard it is, play our budget game and make your plan to the slash the deficit. Then, share it with your friends.

It's not meant to be comprehensive, but spend some time nipping and snipping here and there and it'll give you an idea of how tough digging out of deficit can be.