March 2019
“TINY” DEFICIT NO BIG DEAL
The 2018 Economic and Fiscal together with Budget 2019 represent the beginning of the 2019 Liberal election platform. It is also the beginning of a major headache for the “deficit elimination” Conservatives. The Harper government, after all, failed to eliminate the deficit over eight years, despite cutting spending in successive budgets. What would Mr. Sheer do to eliminate the deficit that the Harper government hasn’t already done?
Fiscal Monitor for April 2018– January 2019
The federal government posted a deficit of $1.7 billion in January 2019, compared to a surplus of $125 million in January 2018.
