Morneau
Federal Liberals to deliver 2020 budget on March 30: Morneau [UPDATED]
Outbreak of the novel coronavirus has changed some spending plans.
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Environment, protecting economy key focus to 2020 budget: Morneau
Health care and safety issues, such as gun control, are also spending plan themes.
Feds won’t explain how pipeline expansion will raise $500M in tax revenue [UPDATED]
Cited by the government when it approved the project a second time last June.
Morneau insists LNG terminal shows Canada can deliver big projects
Liberals taking heat over regulations, including those blamed for holding back construction of oil pipelines out of Alberta.
Morneau unveils principles for Indigenous stake in Trans Mountain pipeline
Spirit of reconciliation, and if the resulting entity works to the benefit of all Canadians, and on a commercial basis.
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Trudeau defends budget measures as sales effort gets underway
Conservatives says budget spending is a spree funded by borrowing against the future.
Liberals boost infrastructure cash to cities, broadband
Federal budget’s extra funding doubles the transfer to cities this fiscal year.
Ontario’s finance minister criticizes federal spending, carbon pricing
Budget doesn’t adequately address issues such as US steel and aluminium tariffs and provincial transfer payments.
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Liberal budget to applaud Canada’s economy, but who deserves credit?
Over the last few years, the Liberals have spent billions more than they promised in their 2015 election platform.
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Trade disruptions don’t dampen Morneau’s optimism about economy [UPDATED]
Shrugs off predictions the world could be headed for another recession.
Canada has ‘high level of confidence’ USMCA will be ratified in US: Morneau
Trump said he planned to give formal notice of his intentions to withdraw from NAFTA, to force US Congress into ratifying new deal.
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New tax incentives for investment could increase Canada’s emissions
Manufacturing and processing companies can write off the full cost of buying new equipment and machinery as soon as they put the purchases to use.
Ottawa ‘on a different economic planet’: Alberta finance minister
Doesn’t have a clear understanding of economic damage caused by the failure to build new pipelines to coastal waters.
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Ottawa’s fall update: $16B competitiveness response to US tax reforms
Plan to help Canada compete with the US for investment dollars forecasts slightly deeper annual deficits over the coming years.
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Ottawa has a competitiveness plan, but it’s unclear how much help is needed
Focus will be on targeted measures to attract investment, rather than broad-based corporate tax reductions.
