There appears to be no end in sight for the Trudeau government’s pandemic spending spree.
In the first two months of its fiscal year, the federal government ran a deficit of $23.8 billion, according to the Finance Department’s regular fiscal monitor.
While the government points out that the $23.8 billion budgetary deficit is a significant drop from the $86.8 billion recorded over the same months in 2020 – when the pandemic first began and the government started implementing various COVID-19 support programs – critics are wondering when the government will reduce spending.
