Canada’s federal deficit is expected to come in at $68.5 billion, about 33% higher than the estimated $51.7 billion for the last fiscal year. This after the fiscal update released by the Trudeau government last December had projected a deficit of $42.2 billion for this coming year.

The figures come from the Economic and Fiscal Outlook report put out Thursday by the parliamentary budget officer.

“The current path we’re on in terms of federal debt as the share of the economy is unsustainable,” parliamentary budget officer Jason Jacques told the House of Commons operations and estimates committee.

What is shocking is this figure doesn’t even include all of the proposed spending to get Canada to its promised 5% of GDP spending on defence or other Liberal spending vows.

“There’s about

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