Département de science politique
Faculté des sciences sociales

Université Laval

In 2019/20, we will reduce the federal debt-to-GDP ratio to 27 percent.

Real Change: A New Plan For a Strong Middle Class (page 76)

"Based on the current consensus view, the federal debt-to-GDP ratio will fall to 31.0 per cent by 2020–21."

(A Plan for Middle Class Progress : Fall Economic Statement, October 27, 2016)

"Canada’s finance ministry on Friday released final figures for the 2017/18 fiscal year and said the budget deficit was slightly smaller than initially forecast, while the debt-to-GDP ratio had edged up."

(Reuters, October 19, 2018)

Federal Fiscal Forecast: Can the Federal Government Really Slow Its Pace of Spending? (Revised)

Political promise

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#5027
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