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PM to Freeland: Spend as needed until crisis ends

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 15 Jan, 2021 07:37 PM
  • PM to Freeland: Spend as needed until crisis ends

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is putting a caveat on orders to his finance minister to spend as needed until the end of the economic crisis caused by COVID-19.

In a mandate letter to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, Trudeau says she should use "whatever fiscal firepower" is needed over the coming weeks and months until the economy improves.

But in doing so, Trudeau writes, Freeland must "avoid creating new permanent spending."

He adds that any plan to regrow the economy must be guided by a budgetary goal to make sure spending doesn't go adrift.

The detail is contained in updated mandate letters the Prime Minister's Office made public today, months after it reset the parliamentary agenda with a late-September throne speech.

In the letters, Trudeau notes the new marching orders add to those laid out to ministers shortly after the Liberals won a minority mandate in the 2019 federal election.

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