Tuesday’s budget calls for spending to reach $329.4 billion.
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The Trudeau government spent $8,639 per person in 2018-19.
The federal deficit is now about $19 billion.
Federal program spending will reach a projected $321.5 billion next year—up 22.2 per cent since 2015.
The annual deficit from a recession could increase from its current level of $19 billion to almost $50 billion.
In most countries with universal health care, patients share the cost of treatment—surgical or pharmaceutical.
The reasonable approach to balancing the budget is to find savings and reduce spending—not raise taxes.
Only a small portion of infrastructure spending will go towards building more efficient transportation corridors.
Over the next five years, the federal government will add at least $113 billion in new debt with no plan for a balanced budget.