The budget centres on a suite of moves to help middle-class Canadians, a focus of Liberal attention for months. "Given the size of what they're spending, frankly it's surprising there are that many broken promises," Mulcair said. The NDP said Liberals "failed to fix" the employment insurance system. The third party wanted to see more stock option loopholes closed and a greater investment in health care. "What we're looking at here is a failure to deliver not only on their own promises but a failure to deliver on things that the courts have required them to do," NDP Leader Tom Mulcair told reporters.
New Democrats, on the other hand, focused on what they called "missed opportunities" to reduce inequality, slamming how the Liberals "shortchanged" First Nations education and child welfare. The Tories said that in total taxes were going up by "at least $1.3 billion a year." The Liberals broke their election promise to contain the deficit to $10 billion annually, they said.ĭuration 8:00 Interim Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose discusses the federal budget "What we're seeing now is reckless spending without a job creation plan and no actual plan in the budget to return to a balance." "This is a bad day for the taxpayers of Canada," interim leader Rona Ambrose said. Prudent was not the word Conservatives used while reacting from the Opposition bench. "What we're also going to do is be prudent along the way." "Canadians told us two things: they said 'help me and my family' and 'make investments for the future,'" he told reporters before delivering his budget speech.
LIVE BLOG RECAP | Experts answer your questions about the Liberal's budget.Ottawa forecasts $29.4B deficit – with lots more red ink to com.Highlights of Bill Morneau's first budget.While the big ticket items match the platform that helped the Liberals win a majority last October, other commitments aren't ready to roll out.įinance Minister Bill Morneau called the plan "reasonable and affordable," despite the red ink washing across the otherwise sunny tone of his rookie budget. Those figures will be updated here when available.The first budget from Justin Trudeau's government finds the Liberals compromising some of their election promises to keep others, laying out a longer and larger string of deficits to begin the kind of long-term investments they say Canada needs. Note: Figures for fiscal year 2015 are estimated by NASBO because the actual figures had not yet been reported as of April 2016. Source: National Association of State Budget Officers, "State Expenditure Report (Fiscal 2014-2016)," accessed June 26, 2017 Total estimated state spending, FY 2016 ($ in millions) Note: Figures for fiscal year 2016 are estimated by NASBO because the actual figures had not yet been reported as of June 2017. United States Census Bureau, "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for the United States, Regions, States, and Puerto Rico: Apto July 1, 2017," accessed September 4, 2018 National Association of State Budget Officers, "State Expenditure Report (Fiscal 2015-2017)," accessed September 4, 2018 Per-capita figures are calculated by taking the state's total spending and dividing by the number of state residents according to United States Census Bureau estimates. Total estimated state spending, FY 2017 ($ in millions) Figures in the columns labeled "Population" and "Per capita spending" have not been abbreviated. In the table below, figures for all columns except "Population" and "Per capita spending" are rendered in millions of dollars (for example, $2,448 translates to $2,448,000,000). Note: Figures for fiscal year 2017 are estimated by NASBO because the actual figures had not yet been reported as of September 2018. The National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO) compiles this information and publishes it in the group's annual "State Expenditures Report." Fiscal year 2017 The tables below summarize total state expenditures by fiscal year.
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