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Poilievre demands Carney cap federal deficit at $31B ahead of spring economic update (www.cbc.ca)
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Ahead of an important fiscal update this week, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is demanding Prime Minister Mark Carney cap the federal deficit at $31 billion, in part by eliminating big ticket items like a major rail project and the gun buyback program.

"We should have no deficit," Poilievre wrote in a letter to Carney. "And if I were Prime Minister right now, we would be on track to achieving that. But your Liberal government has made that impossible for this year."

The $31 billion cap Poilievre proposes is what the former Trudeau government projected the deficit to be for the 2026-27 fiscal year when it tabled the 2024 fall economic update.

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[–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

While I believe the opposition party should challenge everything, that doesn't mean attacking everything.

Other ways to challange:

This bill is good, but have you considered adding/removing X.

Why has Canada gone Y direction when we have seen outcome Z from doing Y internationally.

Why is Canada going Y direction when we have also seen internationals do W.

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