Liberal Fiscal Update

• 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
  
• 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
  
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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
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• ‘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
• Freeland to hold fiscal update virtually after staffers test positive for COVID

  While the finance minister said she has had two negative molecular tests, she will present her update virtually out of an abundance of caution.

  Canada

  Dec 14, 2021
• Fiscal update will set aside $40B to compensate First Nations kids, minister says

  A Court ruling from earlier in the fall upheld orders for Ottawa to pay $40,000 in damages to each of the thousands of First Nations children removed from their homes.

  Canada

  Dec 13, 2021
• Ottawa to roll out fiscal update, lay out plan to compete for investment dollars

  The federal government will release a fall economic update on Wednesday that will seek to close the loop on some of its outstanding mandate commitments, leaving the door open for the Liberals to use next year's budget as their 2019 election platform.

  Canada

  Nov 21, 2018