The prime minister’s mandate letter raised the idea of taxing "extreme wealth inequality.”
federal government spending
April 22, 2021
8:10AM
Federal program spending in 2021/22 is $54.4 billion higher than planned in November 2020.
April 19, 2021
7:25PM
The government says $101 billion in stimulus spending is required for “sustained economic recovery.”
April 9, 2021
9:10AM
According to current projections, the federal government will not balance the budget until 2050.
April 8, 2021
7:59AM
Ottawa ran budget deficits worth a total of $94.1 billion from 2015/16 to 2019/20.
March 31, 2021
12:18PM
Federal program spending in 2021 will reach a projected $11,370 per person—or 18.7 per cent of the economy.
March 25, 2021
8:50AM
For the 45 research projects approved, almost $100 million had been committed but not necessarily spent.
February 11, 2021
10:12AM
Per-person GDP growth was 4.8 times greater during the Chrétien period than the Trudeau period.
February 10, 2021
11:36AM
Ottawa annually pocketed $22 billion more in revenue from Alberta than it spent in the province.