‘A big, big if’: ex-PBO questions Carney’s deficit projections as Liberal spending track keeps being ‘revised upwards’
‘We keep shifting the goalposts as we miss the goalpost,' says Yves Giroux of the Liberal government’s fiscal anchors that seem to move based on ‘where the wind was blowing.’
The Carney government’s “big jump” to a $78-billion deficit is concerning, says former parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux, who warned the Liberals’ shifting fiscal anchors make them “less credible” as a guardrail, and makes it “much more difficult to hold...
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