22 November 2018

However, this demand for expensive support is putting the business community in an awkward position, as they are quite critical of the deficit spending.

“The government keeps spending at a large rate,” – Perrin Beatty, chief executive officer at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, noted. “They have found themselves between two fires, as they need to both solve this issue and deal with the lack of fiscal flexibility.”

Trudeau’s government has doubts on reducing the stimulus even with the economy mostly at full capacity. They point to a successful expansion support. Each unexpected fiscal leeway (like before the previous budget) has already been spent and not used for decreasing the deficits.