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The Canadian federal budget for the fiscal years of 2023–24 was presented to the House of Commons by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on 28 March 2023. [2] The budget was meant to reflect Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's stated policy objective to "make life more affordable for Canadians" [3] while also reducing government expenditures.
In November 2023, Freeland promised a 2023-24 deficit at or below C$40.1 billion ($28.17 billion), to reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio in 2024-25 below 42.4% and to keep it declining.
2020 Canadian federal budget: 2020–21 — Never presented Postponed and combined into the following year's budget due to the COVID-19 pandemic: 2021 Canadian federal budget A Recovery Plan for Jobs, Growth, and Resilience: 2021–22 19 April 2021 Chrystia Freeland Liberal: C-30: Royal Assent (29 June 2021)
By March 2022, food banks across Canada recorded nearly 1.5 million visits, marking an all-time high, with approximately 2.8 million Canadians living in poverty by September 2023. [35] A comprehensive Food Banks Canada report stated that multiple factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic consequences of the Russian invasion of ...
A positive (+) number indicates that revenues exceeded expenditures (a budget surplus), while a negative (-) number indicates the reverse (a budget deficit). Normalizing the data, by dividing the budget balance by GDP, enables easy comparisons across countries and indicates whether a national government saves or borrows money.
Canada recorded a slightly lower C$14.50 billion ($10.09 billion) budget deficit for the first seven months of the 2024/25 fiscal year compared to the previous year as revenues grew faster than ...
The deficit is seen narrowing to C$33.1 billion ($26.4 billion) in 2021-22, matching a November projection, but lower than the record C$38.5 billion deficit forecast for 2020-21, a budget document ...
This was later refined to $39.4 billion when the Annual Financial Report of the Government of Canada for Fiscal Year 2019–2020 was released. [2] The projected deficit of $19.8 billion would result in a deficit of ca. 0.9% of GDP. At the same time the GDP grew by 1.6% in 2019. [5]