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Freeland’s mini-budget makes a down-payment on pandemic recovery spending

Freeland’s mini-budget makes a down-payment on pandemic recovery spending

This afternoon, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland delivered the government’s Fall Economic Statement (FES), the first fiscal blueprint in her new role and the first ever delivered by a woman at the federal level. Today’s mini-budget was full of new spending after...
Morneau’s ‘Snapshot’ Points to Long Economic Recovery

Morneau’s ‘Snapshot’ Points to Long Economic Recovery

“We took on debt so Canadians wouldn’t have to,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this morning, foreshadowing the $343 billion projected deficit revealed by Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s Economic and Fiscal Snapshot. This figure is 10 times higher than...
Canada and China: Canola, Pork and Meng Wanzhou

Canada and China: Canola, Pork and Meng Wanzhou

Last December, Meng Wanzhou, CFO of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, was arrested in Vancouver after a request was made by the United States Department of Justice under the Treaty on Extradition Between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United...
Morneau’s Channel Changer

Morneau’s Channel Changer

Liberal Economic Program Outpaces Expectations in Fall Update OTTAWA, October 24, 2017 – Emerging from weeks of controversy over personal corporate tax changes and opposition questions over the management of his personal business holdings, federal Finance Minister...