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The Deficit: An Update on the Federal Government’s Spending

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This week the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO), reported that expenses for the first quarter of fiscal year 2016-17 (April – July, the government’s fiscal year begins in April), were $3.4 billion higher than the same quarter of 2015, or 5.7 per cent higher, the highest in 6 years. Why were they higher? Keep Reading

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