Canada fiscal update

• Freeland outlines billions to be spent on additional COVID-19 measures

  In addition to rapid testing, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland set aside $4.5 billion in the update for ``possible'' costs to come to respond to Omicron.

  Canada

  Dec 14, 2021
  
• Highlights from Liberals’ fiscal update: What you need to know

  The Liberal government's fiscal update detailed billions of dollars in spending -- including on the Omicron COVID-19 variant response. Here are the highlights.

  Canada

  Dec 14, 2021
  
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• Omicron uncertainty clouding Canada’s inflation forecasts: fiscal update

  Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's fiscal update comes amid a worrying spike in cases of the highly contagious Omicron variant that causes COVID-19.

  Canada

  Dec 14, 2021
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• Canada’s deficit lower than expected but Omicron, B.C. floods eat into windfall

  Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland did not appear in person to provide her accounting of federal finances today because of concerns over COVID-19.

  Canada

  Dec 14, 2021
• Challenges fuelling Canada’s hot housing market will take ‘years’ to fix: Freeland

  Housing prices should normalize 'some' when the pandemic subsides, but the 'acute' challenges behind sky-high housing prices will take time to tackle, the fiscal update said.

  Canada

  Dec 14, 2021
• ‘Significant uncertainty’ making speed of Canada’s economic recovery tough to predict: government

  Omicron, inflation and supply chain woes are clouding Canada’s otherwise improved federal finances, making speed of economic recovery tough to call.

  Canada

  Dec 14, 2021
• Liberals under pressure to balance budget and policy asks in fiscal update

  Inflation rates that have hit 18-year highs, along with strong growth in employment and the domestic economy, could cause the government to ease up on its platform spending plans.

  Politics

  Dec 12, 2021
• Trudeau government’s fiscal update coming Dec. 14, will be ‘limited in scope’

  Trudeau is facing pressure from the opposition in parliament and business groups to scale back spending for fear that government expenditure will fuel skyrocketing inflation.

  Politics

  Dec 2, 2021
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• Bill Kelly: Are we heading for a Christmas election?

  Here we go again, with Canada in the same precarious political scenario that we faced just a few months ago, Bill Kelly says.

  Commentary

  Dec 2, 2020
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• All eyes on Ottawa as Freeland set to deliver hotly awaited coronavirus fiscal update

  There are few indications the federal government will make any effort to rein in coronavirus response spending, with many saying the deficit will likely rise.

  Canada

  Nov 30, 2020