Liberal Budget
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Budget 2022 and Canada’s incredible disappearing deficitsThe annual deficit has shrunk by $275B in two years, even as the government announced new initiatives. What gives? Economist Jim Stanford looks at the red line of Budget 2022.CommentaryApr 9
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Budget 2022 comes ‘nowhere close’ the Liberals’ lofty rhetoric on defence spendingDespite the Liberal government's earlier hints of a funding boost, Budget 2022 means Canada's defence spending will be only 1.5% of GDP by later this decade, Jeffrey Collins says.CommentaryApr 8
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2 prime ministers named Trudeau, 2 minority governments — and 2 very different budgetsIn 2022, Justin Trudeau leads a minority Liberal government propped up by the NDP, just like his father in 1973. Yet as Howard Anglin explains, budget 2022 reveals differences.CommentaryApr 8
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NDP expecting no ‘surprises’ in federal budget, want Liberals to honour spending promisesThe New Democrats are confident there will be ``no surprises'' in the federal budget and that the Liberals will honour spending pledges made in their confidence and supply pact.PoliticsApr 7
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‘A step forward’: Budget earmarks funds for upgrade of North American defencesThe budget included more than $100 billion in new spending over the next few years. Of that, $163 million has been earmarked for what the government calls NORAD modernization.CanadaApr 24, 2021
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Quebec disappointed federal budget didn’t increase health transfersIn the wake of Monday's federal budget announcement, Quebec politicians are upset that their No.1 request — increased transfer payments for health care — was not fulfilled.EconomyApr 20, 2021
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Post-COVID-19 Canada: What the federal budget tells us about the end of the pandemicIn the first budget in over two years, the Liberals laid out their vision for a post-COVID Canada -- and dropped some hints about when a post-COVID Canada could become reality.CanadaApr 20, 2021
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The federal budget was tabled. Now opposition parties are going to propose rewritesDebate began in the House of Commons with leaders pushing to shape the economic blueprint more to their liking.PoliticsApr 20, 2021
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Budget 2021: What’s missing as feds say no to new GST hike, universal basic incomeGlobal News dug into a few of the measures that had a lot of hype before the budget but that didn’t make it onto its pages.CanadaApr 19, 2021
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Canada’s debt set to cross $1 trillion mark as Liberals extend COVID-19 aid in budgetCanada's new budget estimates all the spending should create or maintain some 330,000 jobs next year and add about two percentage points to economic growth.CanadaApr 19, 2021
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