Justin Trudeau and his ministers gathered in Hamilton, Ont. on Monday for a three-day cabinet retreat ahead of Parliament’s return next week
Former Bank of Canada senior deputy governor Carolyn Wilkins is among a group of experts set to brief Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet as they chart their government’s economic agenda for 2023.
None of the people briefing the ministers on economic matters will be unfamiliar to them. In addition to Ms. Wilkins, who left the central bank in 2020 and is now a senior research scholar at Princeton University, the cabinet members will be receiving confidential presentations from Canada’s chief statistician, Anil Arora, and University of British Columbia economics professor Kevin Milligan.
The government has already launched some programs in response to economic concerns. In September, Mr. Trudeau announced $4.6-billion in new spending intended to help Canadians struggling with higher costs of living.and it included new payments to uninsured parents to cover their young children’s dental costs, a doubling of the GST credit and a boost in rent supports.
The federal government has said that it is willing to increase the health transfers, but only if premiers agree to accountability measures, including the creation of a national health data system.
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