Friday, December 19, 2008

Harper will have the largest deficit since Mulroney!

This must be killing Conservative egos across Canada

Yesterday, Canada's parliamentary budget watchdog, Kevin Page, separately released a memo estimating that a $30-billion stimulus package in 2009-2010 would lead to a deficit that surpassed $34-billion for that year. The last time Ottawa ran a deficit was 12 years ago, and the last one exceeding $30-billion was 1995-1996, before the former Liberal government balanced the books.

Full Story at;

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081219.HARPER19/TPStory/National

No comments:

Post a Comment