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.
Note to people downvoting:
Downvoting a news article doesn’t undo what the opposition leader said, but it does make people less informed about it.
I think it’s helpful to hear what happened and then read a discussion about it in the comments.
It’s frustrating but I understand why the impulse is there
I’d really enjoy downvoting his face.