Sentences with phrase «deficits during the election»

They were willing to accept «modest» deficits during the election, but only if they could balance the budget in 2019 - 20.

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Yet during the October 2008 election campaign, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty flatly asserted, «We will not run a deficit.»

During the 2008 federal election, the Conservative leader denied the recession would push Canada into deficit.

While I understand that the NDP must feel intense pressure to capture votes — including from people who have never taken a course from John Smithin — I often wish that the NDP would show a bit more policy leadership on the issue of the deficit and debt. I was particularly disappointed during the 2008 federal election campaign when Mr. Layton stated, unequivocally, that the NDP would not run a deficit in the following year if elected (even though it was clear that Canada was entering a recession).

Including Mr. Harper's vow in 2008 that a government led by him would «never» go into deficit, this is the second time in three years that the Conservatives have made a balanced - budget promise during an election campaign only to abandon it after being reelected.

Either you agree with this ridiculous legislation or you will be accused during the election of being a «big spender» and «tax increaser» that doesn't care about deficits and debt.

During the election campaign, Mr. Trudeau didn't shy away from acknowledging that his party's plans to invest in infrastructure would result in several years of deficit spending.

During the election, many mainstream economists such as David Dodge, Don Drummond and former deputy minister of Finance Scott Clark argued the strong case for deficit financing of productive public investments at a time of economic stagnation and very low interest rates.

[71][87] Support for Labour slumped during the recession, and the general election of 2010 resulted in a coalition government being formed by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, which made deep spending cuts in order to ease the budget deficit.

The lesson of the debate on the deficit during and after the general election is that the left can not be abashed by fiscal reality.

As expected, the current fiscal year budget deficit is forecast to come in at just shy of $ 30 billion ($ 29.4 billion, to be exact) and to fall only a bit next year (to $ 29.0 billion), nearly three times the size of deficit promised during the election campaign.