federal budget

11:34AM
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Budget advice—Bill Morneau, channel James Robb

"Work and thrift are the only sure roads to success."


11:18AM
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Cash

Federal program spending will reach a projected $321.5 billion next year—up 22.2 per cent since 2015.


1:38PM
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Trudeau government must act now on trade, taxes as possible recession looms

Canada’s unemployment rate in August rose to six per cent with Ontario leading the way, losing about 80,000 jobs.


4:14PM
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The PBO projects a cumulative federal deficit of $85.6 billion over the next five years.


8:50AM
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Only 10.6 per cent of the nearly $100 billion in new infrastructure spending is for trade and transportation.


1:38PM
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If more innovation programs were all we needed to solve our innovation problems, they would have been solved a long time ago.


12:43PM
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The budget proposes cumulative deficits totalling $72.8 billion over the government’s first mandate.