Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s budget tabled in the House of Commons today has three main focuses — the clean economy transition, health care and cost-of-living relief.
Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke Member of Parliament Cheryl Gallant says, “three strikes, you’re out.”
The budget includes close to 60-billion-dollars of new spending over the next five years.
The local MP recalls a statement Justin Trudeau made several years ago.
The federal deficit is projected to decrease to 14-billion-dollars over the next five years, from 43-billion-dollars at present.
Gallant says it’s not a document her party would bring forward.
The budget downgrades previous economic forecasts to account for a what Finance minister Chrustia Freeland expects as a shallow recession this year.
By Rick Stow