A preview of what Canadians can likely expect from the 2023 federal budget

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Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will deliver the 2023 federal budget on March 28 at 4 p.m. ET. Green technology, health care and affordability are expected to be key themes

What is the projected federal budget deficit for 2023?deficit for the current fiscal year

will be $36.5-billion – down from $90.2-billion the previous year. The PBO projects the deficit will then rise to $43.1-billion in the fiscal year that begins April 1, before declining steadily in future years. However the PBO’s figures show the federal government will still have a deficit of $8.7-billion in 2027-28. Ms. Freeland’s fall economic update had projected a $4.5-billion surplus that year, though it also said it could be an $8.3-billion deficit under a “downside scenario” of weaker economic growth.Ms.

Economists and business groups have cautioned that Canada can’t compete dollar-for-dollar with the billions in subsidies now on offer south of the border. A Congressional Budget Office report estimated that the measures in the Inflation Reduction Act add up to about US$400-billion over 10 years. Business Council of Canada CEO Goldy Hyder told The Globe and Mail that Canada’s response should be about one-tenth of the size of the U.S. package, given that Canada’s population is about one-tenth that of the U.S.“The fiscal situation is very tight right now,” said Conference Board of Canada chief economist Pedro Antunes. “We essentially have overspent through the pandemic. We have a higher debt load. We have interest rates coming up. We have, already, a bunch of commitments.

 

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Will she be flying in on her broomstick to announce her intentional insolvency strategy?

Here's what you can expect the budget to cover: • Clean energy technology • Health care • Affordability

Government budgets are usually illusionary pieces of paper with creative non recognized accounting methods that make very little sense except for political brownie points.

I guess the rout of clean tech subsidies and bank failures in the US didn’t resonate.

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