Mike De Souza, Carl Meyer, Morgan Sharp
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March 19th 2019
Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s last federal budget before the 2019 election shows that the Trudeau government’s deficit is about $3 billion lower than anticipated for the 2018-2019 fiscal year, but there are no signs of balancing Canada’s books in the coming years.
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The federal government plans to spend more than a billion dollars over five years to strengthen Canada’s border and speed up the processing of asylum claims and removal of failed applicants, its 2019 budget shows, as immigration heats up as an election issue.
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