Trudeau Budget

• Budget 2022 and Canada’s incredible disappearing deficits

  The 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.

  Commentary

  Apr 9, 2022
  
• 2 prime ministers named Trudeau, 2 minority governments — and 2 very different budgets

  In 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.

  Commentary

  Apr 8, 2022
  
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• Trudeau government’s fiscal update coming Dec. 14, will be ‘limited in scope’

  Trudeau is facing pressure from the opposition in parliament and business groups to scale back spending for fear that government expenditure will fuel skyrocketing inflation.

  Politics

  Dec 2, 2021
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• The federal budget was tabled. Now opposition parties are going to propose rewrites 

  Debate began in the House of Commons with leaders pushing to shape the economic blueprint more to their liking.

  Politics

  Apr 20, 2021
• Canada’s debt set to cross $1 trillion mark as Liberals extend COVID-19 aid in budget

  Canada'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.

  Canada

  Apr 19, 2021
• Liberals expected to spend big on federal budget as pandemic lingers, election looms 

  Canada's Liberal government will deliver on its promise to spend big when it presents its first budget in two years next week amid a fast-rising third wave of COVID-19 infectionsX.

  Politics

  Apr 14, 2021
• Reality check: Scheer says Liberals used federal budget as a ‘political prop’

  Andrew Scheer and his Conservative caucus members have been scathing in their attacks on this week's decision by the Liberal-dominated House of Commons justice committee to abruptly end its examination of the SNC-Lavalin affair.

  Politics

  Mar 22, 2019
• Liberal budget sets aside $4.5B for Indigenous services

  Speaking to reporters, Finance Minister Bill Morneau stressed the Liberals have been committed to reconciliation from the beginning of their mandate.

  Canada

  Mar 19, 2019
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• Liberal budget to raise taxes on stock options for execs of large companies

  The government plans to exclude startups and rapidly growing businesses from the cap, so they can keep using stock options to attract and reward employees.

  Canada

  Mar 19, 2019
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• Liberal budget to include update to Trudeau’s plan to support news industry

  Last fall, the Liberals announced new tax credits and incentives, worth 595 million dollars over the next five years, to support the struggling news industry.

  Canada

  Mar 16, 2019