“Mr. Speaker, I would like to know what my colleague thinks about the fact that the Parliamentary Budget Officer has cast doubt on the government’s ability to maintain one of its fiscal anchors, namely its target to reduce the deficit-to-GDP ratio. She predicts that the deficit will be $6.5 billion higher than projected in the economic update. She does also predict that the debt-to-GDP ratio will fall from 2% to 1.5% by the 2030-31 fiscal year, but she estimates that there is less than a 1% chance that Ottawa will achieve an annual reduction in the deficit-to-GDP ratio. What are my colleague’s thoughts on that?”
Statement grade
C
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Average 63 / 100
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Positioning 57%Claims 43%
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Mr. Speaker, Positioning · 19 wordsthe new government is focused on investing in core priorities that matter most to Canadians and taking bold actions.PositioningClaims · 32 wordsIt is because of those actions that we see, as we saw last Friday, a report that almost 90,000 jobs were added to the Canadian labour force, 1and that unemployment has dropped.2Positioning · 23 wordsThere are measures the government is taking to build the strongest economy in the G7 and to focus on delivering results for Canadians.PositioningPartly on pointVague promise
