Canada Budget Deficit

• Russian assets must be seized; accounts of sexual violence ‘chilling’: Freeland

  One expert said the budget marks a shift from an era of large-scale, emergency government spending to a transition period where inflation is — hopefully — a short-term phenomenon.

  Canada

  Apr 10, 2022
  
• Canada’s treasury ‘depleted’ as budget weans COVID spending, eyes uncertainty

  Chrystia Freeland said that after the almost unprecedented spending of the pandemic’s crisis phase, now is the time to lift the government’s foot off the economic gas pedal.

  Politics

  Apr 7, 2022
  
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• Canadians like the things the federal budget is spending on, but not the deficits: Leger poll

  On the federal budget, Liberals and Conservatives have found themselves at loggerheads. And Canadians appear to agree with both of them.

  Politics

  Mar 21, 2019
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• Trudeau says national budget deficit remains sustainable, defends Liberal budget

  Trudeau acknowledged that his government has been borrowing heavily but he emphasized that although the national debt keeps growing, the economy is growing at about the same rate.

  Canada

  Mar 20, 2019
• ANALYSIS: Trudeau says forget about fiscal promises of 2015, look at the results in 2018

  Having failed to deliver a promised balanced budget, Justin Trudeau will instead campaign on what he's delivering: A red-hot economy and a 40-year-low in unemployment.

  Canada

  Nov 21, 2018