Politics Briefing: Trudeau defends continued spending without economic update GlobePolitics
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.At his Tuesday press conference, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau again defended his decision not to release a budget or economic update as his government spends more than $150-billion in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“A fiscal update that talks about what our revenues or projected expenditures could be six months from now or a year from now would be incredibly unreliable,” Mr. Trudeau said.In May, finance department officials told a Senate committee that a fiscal update would be readyThe government has released updated totals of how much it is spending to respond to the economic shutdown, but has not shown how the overall spending impacts the country’s bottom line.
Mr. Trudeau was asked if his government would table a fiscal update before Labour Day but did not directly answer the question, instead presenting a rational for not releasing one.on people who wrongly claimed income support during the crisis will not target people who made"honest mistakes” and rather focus on “deliberate fraudsters.”
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