Finance Minister Morneau lays out new spending for Canada Child Benefit, lower deficit projection in his fall economic update
The update, exactly at the half point of the Liberal government's four-year term, projected a sunnier picture of Canada's economy in the face of intense scrutiny of Finance Minister Bill Morneau.
The Liberal government is projecting a smaller than anticipated deficit in 2017-18, largely thanks to the Canadian economy, but has earmarked most of those savings to top-up the Canadian Child Benefit and another tax credit for the lowest income earners.
In Tuesday's fall economic update, Finance M...
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