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Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s 168-page fiscal release, which was more like a family album than a snapshot, will disappoint some Canadians because it was positioned not as a strategy for an immediate post-COVID recovery, but as a middle step in the battle against the epidemic, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

July 8, 2020

OTTAWA—Finance Minister Bill Morneau delivered the bill for the federal government’s COVID-19 response, including a $343-billion deficit, but brushed aside demands for a blueprint to rein in the huge debt caused by the pandemic. Morneau’s 168-page fiscal release, which was more like a family ...

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