{"id":5645,"date":"2020-07-08T17:16:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T21:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2020-07-08T17:16:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T21:16:34","slug":"ottawa-to-post-343b-deficit-as-spending-hits-levels-not-seen-since-second-world-war-cbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=5645","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa to post $343B deficit as spending hits levels not seen since Second World War | CBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Finance Minister Bill Morneau tabled a fiscal snapshot today that shows the federal government&#8217;s deficit is expected to hit $343 billion this year \u2014 an eye-popping figure largely attributed to pandemic-related support programs that have pushed federal spending to a level not seen since the Second World War.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/bill-morneau-fiscal-update-budget-deficit-1.5641864\">Ottawa to post $343B deficit as spending hits levels not seen since Second World War | CBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Bill Morneau tabled a fiscal snapshot today that shows the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[84,169,18],"class_list":["post-5645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}