#59 Things You Should Know About Canada’s Historic Debt Level

The Liberal government revealed a mini-budget chock full of new spending — but it’s the pitch to keep the spending taps open, to inject up to $100 billion into the economy after the pandemic, that has financial experts turning their heads. In this episode: HuffPost Canada Ottawa reporter Zi-Ann Lum; Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux; Kevin Page, Canada's first parliamentary budget officer and the president and CEO of the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy at the University of Ottawa; and Scotiabank’s director of fiscal and provincial economics Rebekah Young. Hosted by Althia Raj.

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#59 Things You Should Know About Canada’s Historic Debt Level is an episode from Follow-Up by Follow-Up With Althia Raj.

This episode is 00:39:12 long.

This episode was published on Dec 5, 2020.

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