OTTAWA — The federal government posted a deficit of $5.36 billion for the first five months of its 2026-27 fiscal year.
In its monthly fiscal monitor report, the Finance Department says the result compared with a deficit of $11.07 billion in the same April-to-August period a year earlier.
I don’t need them to build another Shopify or some bullshit. Build a payment processor that doesn’t cost so much to use. Make it platform agnostic. You don’t help small businesses by kneecaping other small businesses (web developers).