Prime Minister Mark Carney promised the nation Wednesday evening the fall budget will spur unseen levels of private sector investments, but at the same time he warned that sacrifices are in store.
The prime minister said the core of his government’s fiscal strategy will be to spur “unprecedented” investments in Canada over the next five years, and asserted that Ottawa has the “fiscal capacity to act decisively.”
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“Now is not the time to be cautious because fortune favours the bold,” Carney said in a speech at the University of Ottawa Wednesday evening, designed to set