Karina Roman

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Lower-than-forecasted deficit, new affordability measures expected in spring fiscal update

Finance minister says economic resilience and affordability are priorities. Finance experts predict Tuesday's spring economic update will contain a number of new economic measures aimed at tackling affordability and the wider economic challenges of the country, and they expect the update will show a smaller-than-forecasted deficit. "That'll be the headline number that will likely get a lot of attention," said...

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Carney heads to U.A.E. hoping to sign investment pact with gulf nation

Formal agreement 'ready to go,' says senior government official. Prime Minister Mark Carney is aiming to sign a formal investment agreement with the United Arab Emirates on his visit there this week, a senior government official told CBC News. “There’s a deal ready to go,” said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about it. The official said...

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What’s going to be in Carney’s first budget?

Big spending, cuts and a test for the minority government coming Tuesday. After weeks of federal government spending announcements leading up to budget day, the biggest unknown remains how large the deficit will be and where and how deep the expected cuts will land. Prime Minister Mark Carney and his finance minister, François-Philippe Champagne, have repeatedly characterized Tuesday’s budget as...

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Carney wants to spend an extra $9B on defence by April. Is that possible?

Experts say there are risks and serious challenges to hitting this year's NATO target. Prime Minister Mark Carney's goal of hitting NATO's defence spending target of two per cent of gross domestic product this year will be an uphill — nearly impossible — battle, say experts and critics. An extra $8.7 billion is earmarked for defence spending by the Department...

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In confidential memo, LeBlanc asks for ideas on how to fight back against U.S. protectionism

Finance minister says he wants new spending geared to shoring up Canada as it grapples with U.S. threats. Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc has asked his fellow ministers to draw up a list of ideas he can deploy in the planned spring budget to fight back against U.S. protectionism, a threat that shows no signs of going away even if Canada...

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Trump isn't yet U.S. president, but his plans for the war in Ukraine loom large over G20

The G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, which begins on Monday, is already impacted by ever-evolving geopolitical events, regardless of host Brazil's official theme of fighting hunger, poverty and inequality. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Brazil on the heels of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit in Lima, Peru's capital, where he conceded that many conversations with other...

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Canada wants to be in the top 10 global tourism destinations — but it's struggling to get there

Canada has set ambitious post-pandemic tourism targets and has a new strategy to meet them, but experts say geopolitical challenges, cost of travel in the country and climate change will make those goals difficult to achieve. Canada's goal is to get back into the top 10 tourist destinations in the world, after falling to 13th in 2021 on the World...

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Freeland plans to trigger a vote on capital gains tax changes next week

The Liberal government plans to force the Conservatives to vote this coming week on changes to the country's capital gains tax regime set to go into effect on June 25. A senior federal government source said Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will start the legislative process on Monday morning.

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Experts predict tax hikes in budget as Trudeau government stretches to pay for its promises

Economists and experts say they're expecting the federal government to raise taxes in Tuesday's budget to help offset billions of dollars in new spending already promised in the pre-budget announcements that have been landing almost daily since the end of March. Those announcements add up to more than $38 billion in commitments over a number of years. Because $17 billion...