Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to include in her upcoming fall economic statement a plan to stop the federal government’s upcoming tax increases and to offset any new spending with “equivalent saving.”
“The bubble is finally bursting and the bill is finally coming due,” Poilievre wrote in an open letter to Freeland on Oct. 30.
Freeland will deliver her fall economic statement, which is an annual update on the federal government’s finances, on Nov. 3 in the House of Commons.
“For years my warnings that out-of-control spending would balloon inflation, and then interest rates, were ignored. Now in a leaked letter the government seems to now agree with me,” Poilievre wrote….