Harper’s C$6.6 Billion Platform Sees 2014 Balanced Budget
This article is for subscribers only.
Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper released his Conservative Party’s election platform, pledging C$6.6 billion ($6.9 billion) in new measures and accelerating Canada’s return to surplus.
The platform document, which was released today near Toronto, pledges a “strategic and operating” review of government spending with a goal of saving at least C$4 billion a year by 2014 that will be used to finance new tax cuts and spending, and allow the country to return to surplus one year earlier than projected last month.