Canada’s spending watchdog found the Canada Border Services Agency and—surprise—the military had a lot of trouble delivering on their deliverables
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The big cut Jim Flaherty won’t have to make: Budget 2013’s spending mystery explained
Perhaps the biggest unanswered question about the budget Finance Minister Jim Flaherty tabled last week was how he planned to cut a whopping $4 billion out of the government’s operating expenses in the coming year. As it turns out, though, that might just be the easiest part of Flaherty’s budget-balancing task ahead.
Budget watchdog: Austerity is already here
Overall federal spending is down by three per cent
Federal government commits $477 million to U.S.-led military satellite system
Project has been plagued with quality control issues, cost overruns
Would you like some freedom fries with that?
Maxime Bernier addresses the faithful in Quebec City
How much stimulus can we really expect?
Why the budget will generate only a quarter of the economic activity that the government told us it would