federal budget

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Canada moving quickly towards U.S.-style ‘spend now, pay later’ government

The Trudeau Liberals initially promised to run deficits for three years to finance spending increases.


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Trudeau government ignores implications of Canada’s aging population at our peril

As the baby boomers continue to retire, the proportion of working Canadians will also decline.


3:44PM
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Freeland takes over during massive federal spending spree

The federal budget deficit in 2020-21 will be the largest in Canadian history.


11:49AM
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Trudeau government should provide fiscal projections to Canadians

The CERB is now estimated to cost $61.1 billion compared to the original estimate of $40.6 billion.


4:13PM
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Trudeau government must tackle federal budget deficit

Between the early 1970s and the mid-1990s, the federal government ran a deficit every year.


6:00AM
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Chrétien’s fiscal prudence lessons for Prime Minister Trudeau

The federal debt going into this recession would have been $617.9 billion rather than the expected $713.2 billion.


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What would Chrétien’s budget rules have meant for Trudeau: Part 2

The Trudeau government has run five consecutive deficits since taking office in 2015 and is expected to have accumulated approximately $84.3 billion in federal debt—$713.2 billion total—by the end of 2019-20.