Canada faces a budget reckoning as deficit pressure mounts

Delivering a true austerity budget would require scaling back departmental budgets to a degree almost certain to spark political blowback.

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne speaks with reporters in the West Block on June 19. With Parliament back in session, expectations are high for the Carney government’s first budget, writes Josie Sabatino.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JOSIE SABATINO

September 17, 2025

OTTAWA—Back in 2022, then-finance minister Chrystia Freeland addressed an auto industry ...

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