Fiscal Update 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.

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  Dec 14, 2021
  
• 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.

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  Dec 14, 2021
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• 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