Balancing the budget is not Canada’s top economic priority

Boosting our productivity performance so that we can raise the growth potential of the economy is the top priority, and in the process, addressing income inequality and environmental sustainability.
Conservative Leader Scheer’s Conservatives have to offer Canadians something more than simplistic calls for a balanced budget.
TORONTO—The Conservatives say they would like to make the economy the issue in the next federal election, about a year from now. But if they simply want a return to the discredited austerity policies of the Harper government, which slowed Canada’s recovery from the Great Recession and kept too m...

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