‘Clock is ticking’: feds should release fiscal update, recovery plan soon, says Page

'We are reading IMF reports on Canada, we are reading PBO reports on Canada, we should be reading the minister of finance's fiscal update,' says Kevin Page. Meanwhile, a PBO report published last month projects a deficit of $252.1-billion in the current fiscal year.

Kevin Page says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau's statements that 'they will do whatever it takes to buffer the blow of the virus' are not a fiscal plan. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and file photograph

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BY NEIL MOSS

May 11, 2020

Where are Bill Morneau's new shoes? That's the question being asked around Parliament Hill as a former parliamentary budget officer says that the “clock is ticking” for the government to release a fiscal update so Canadians can see its plan for a recovery from the economic crisis brought on by ...

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