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Politics This Morning: Ottawa projects deeper deficit, as Morneau prepares to field premiers’ calls for more federal funding

Plus, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to make an appearance at the diplomatic corps' holiday reception in Gatineau, Que.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau, in his latest fiscal update, projects strong economic growth ahead, relative to Canada's G7 peers, even as the government is projecting a deeper deficit than initially pegged, amounting to $26.6-billion. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

BY BEATRICE PAEZ

December 17, 2019

Good Tuesday morning, Finance Minister Bill Morneau's latest fiscal outlook has the government running a deeper deficit than i...

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