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In her resignation letter, Freeland implicitly referred to a Trudeau-fronted proposal to grant $250 cheques to working Canadians who earned $150,000 or less in 2023 as a "costly political gimmick" and argued that the Canadian government should "[keep] our fiscal powder dry today, so we have the reserves we may need for a coming tariff war."
To cover debt incurred due to high natural gas prices, utilities outside Texas have had to raise prices. Oklahoma Natural Gas is charging customers up to $7.80 per month for the next 25 years to securitize its costs of $1.4 billion during the crisis. [138] The natural gas industry reaped a windfall profit of $11 billion during the crisis. [22]
According to the IMF's 2018 annual Article IV Mission to Canada, compared to all the G7 countries, including the United States, Canada's "total government net debt-to-GDP ratio", is the lowest. [9] Canada has been the G7 leader in economic growth since 2016. [9] The unemployment rate in Canada is at its lowest level since c.1978. [9]
Canada's fiscal deficit for the year ended March came in at C$61.9 billion ($43.45 billion) - about 50% more than what was projected and missing one of the three key fiscal objectives Finance ...
OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada's Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland declined to say on Tuesday whether the country would achieve its deficit target for the last fiscal year, fueling economists ...
Canada recorded a slightly lower C$14.50 billion ($10.09 billion) budget deficit for the first seven months of the 2024/25 fiscal year compared to the previous year as revenues grew faster than ...
Budgets are a confidence measure, and if the House votes against it the government can fall, as happened to Prime Minister Joe Clark's government in 1980. The governing party strictly enforces party discipline, usually expelling from the party caucus any government Member of Parliament (MP) who votes against the budget. Opposition parties ...
Canada's budget deficit for the first six months of the 2024-25 fiscal year jumped by more than a half to C$13.01 billion ($9.28 billion) as program expenses and debt payment costs rose faster ...