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RSS FeedsJustin Trudeau touts budget`s `meaningful´ investments
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

23 march 2017 23:48:33

 
Justin Trudeau touts budget`s `meaningful´ investments
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is highlighting his government’s “meaningful” investments in skills training, child care and affordable housing as he fends off criticism that the Liberals’ second budget was a tepid, hold-the-line plan.Trudeau travelled to Toronto Thursday and used a visit to George Brown College to highlight promised investments in skills and training, which he framed as a response to a rapidly changing job market that have left many Canadians skittish about their financial futures.“Investing in skills training and opportunities for Canadians to adjust and adapt . . . will go a long way to allaying the worries and anxieties that far too many families are feeling right now,” Trudeau said during his campus visit.“We know the workplace is changing. This budget is about making sure Canadians can thrive in the new economies that are coming,” he said.Finance Minister Bill Morneau tabled the Liberals’ second budget in the Commons Wednesday, a more subdued fiscal blueprint than their first budget. It reins in spending in the face of economic weakness and political uncertainty around the new Donald Trump administration Washington. The Liberals took heat from opposition MPs Thursday, who criticized the budget strategy to defer spending until later years and not to more to reduce the reduce the deficit. “This is nothing but a backloaded, bafflegab, better luck next time budget,” NDP MP Nathan Cullen said in question period.Conservative finance critic Gérard Deltell said his party’s main complaint is the lack of a timeline to balance the federal books. Deltell also took issue with the Liberals` continued commitment to larger-than-promised deficits — with 2017-2018’s $28.5 billion deficit almost triple what the party promised in the 2015 election. “But they throw away, they push away their program, they have no respect for what they have ...


 
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