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Finance minister says he wants new spending geared to shoring up Canada as it grapples with U.S. threats. Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc has asked his fellow ministers to draw up a list of ideas he can deploy in the planned spring budget to fight back against U.S. protectionism, a threat that shows no signs of going away even if Canada...
The G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, which begins on Monday, is already impacted by ever-evolving geopolitical events, regardless of host Brazil's official theme of fighting hunger, poverty and inequality. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Brazil on the heels of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit in Lima, Peru's capital, where he conceded that many conversations with other...
Canada has set ambitious post-pandemic tourism targets and has a new strategy to meet them, but experts say geopolitical challenges, cost of travel in the country and climate change will make those goals difficult to achieve. Canada's goal is to get back into the top 10 tourist destinations in the world, after falling to 13th in 2021 on the World...
The Liberal government plans to force the Conservatives to vote this coming week on changes to the country's capital gains tax regime set to go into effect on June 25. A senior federal government source said Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will start the legislative process on Monday morning.
Economists and experts say they're expecting the federal government to raise taxes in Tuesday's budget to help offset billions of dollars in new spending already promised in the pre-budget announcements that have been landing almost daily since the end of March. Those announcements add up to more than $38 billion in commitments over a number of years. Because $17 billion...