Infrastructure Delays Keep Canada's Spending Lagging Behind Budget Plans
Traffic on the southbound Don Valley Parkway in Toronto, on Jan. 5, 2014.
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Actual Canadian government spending is lagging behind planned outlays, in part because of delays in implementing infrastructure projects, the nation’s parliamentary watchdog said.
Total outlays for the fiscal year that began April 1 were up 3.7 percent from a year earlier to C$137 billion ($98 billion), the Parliamentary Budget Officer said in its Expenditure Monitor report, below the 5.6% spending increase that had been budgeted.