OTTAWA — The federal finance minister said Tuesday he wants to address service delays at the Canada Revenue Agency within 100 days, even as Ottawa plans spending cuts across the public service.

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne set the timeline in a letter to Liberal MP Karina Gould, chair of the House of Commons finance committee, which was posted to his X account Tuesday morning.

In that letter, he said it's "increasingly apparent" the CRA is not meeting Canadians' standards.

"The service delays and access challenges Canadians are experiencing from CRA call centres are unacceptable," he wrote.

Gord Johns, an NDP MP in British Columbia, wrote his own letter to Champagne dated Aug. 26 in which he shared his constituents' complaints about the CRA's service.

He said his const

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