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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.
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.
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 ...
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)
In a fiscal update, the finance ministry forecast the deficit would be C$144.5 billion in fiscal 2021/22, down 6.6% from the C$154.7 billion forecast in April, as tax revenues increased and less ...
Canada's trade deficit was C$137 million ($108 million) in December, well below analyst forecasts of a surplus of C$2.50 billion. Imports rose 3.7% to hit an all-time record for the third ...
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]
Canada set out on Thursday C$11.3 billion ($8.2 billion) in new spending this year and next, and slashed its budget deficit forecast by nearly a third for the current fiscal year, in an economic ...