Trudeau’s $1 billion surplus now a $26.6 billion deficit

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Trudeau’s $1 billion surplus now a $26.6 billion deficit
  • BY LORRIE GOLDSTEIN
    ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: DEC 16, 2019
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Canada's Finance Minister Bill Morneau delivers the fiscal update in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada December 16, 2019.Blair Gable / Reuters

Finance Minister Bill Morneau on Monday added another chapter to the book of fairy tale accounting authored by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau since he was elected in 2015.

During that election, Trudeau promised — not predicted, promised during one of the televised leaders’ debates — that the Canadian government under his leadership would have a $1 billion surplus this year.

Instead, Morneau’s economic update puts the deficit at $26.6 billion this year and $28.1 billion next year, before gradually shrinking to $11.6 billion in 2024-25, meaning five more years of double-digit deficits with no balanced budgets in sight.

Despite ongoing tensions in global trade and economic weakness in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Moreau said he does not believe Canada is heading into a recession, based on the experts the government consults.

Last month’s loss of 71,000 jobs in the Canadian economy should be weighed against the fact unemployment is at historic lows, he said, with 400,000 jobs created this year, and one million jobs since the Liberals took power in 2015.

Wages for the average Canadian worker are growing faster than inflation, he said, and 2019 could end up being the strongest year for wage growth in Canada in almost a decade.

Morneau said although he doesn’t believe there will be a recession in Canada in the foreseeable future, the Canadian economy is well-positioned to deal with one if it happens.

Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre disagreed.

He said Canada faces “the prospect of a made-in-Canada recession” because of the Trudeau government’s policies of recklessly piling on debt year after year and creating “devastating” government red tape, which has slowed to a crawl vital infrastructure projects like the Trans Mountain pipeline.

For now, Canadians have no choice but to hope that Trudeau’s ability to predict recessions, is a lot better than his ability to predict deficits.

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对一个没有能力滥发货币的国家。没有黄金储备。没有军事威慑的国家。
赤字就是子孙的钱和命。
 
等预算自己平衡吧。
 
meantime北美大陆,我们的邻居也不那么友善了。亚洲大陆,我们的故国,更不那么友善了。都是他们的错,他们都是王八蛋。就加拿大高大上。



加拿大人前往或过境美国要格加小心了!因为最新修订的《加美入境预检协议》给予了美国官员在加拿大境内执法的危险权力。

CBC近日发表了新泽西州立罗格斯大学美国研究在读博士H.M.Joycelyn的评论文章,称加美两国共有世界上最长的无防卫边境,两国民众互相视为邻居,但是现在防御已经变得无关紧要,因为加拿大法律已经邀请美国边境当局侵入,削弱加拿大公民的权利。

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图片来源:Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated Press

文章称,新协议导致美国边境官员有权拒绝加拿大人的退出权,即放弃入境的权利。

今年初修订的《加美入境预检协议》(Canada-United States Preclearance Agreement)是为了加快加美边境的人员和货物往来,但是却让美国官员能够在加拿大领土上设立的海关预审查区域(preclearance area)内,进行搜身检查、记录和保存旅客信息,以及拘捕加籍公民。

即使加拿大官员“不愿意”搜查或者已经认定没有必要拘捕,美国官员有权驳回。换言之,美国官员现在可以在加拿大的领土上,反驳加拿大执法官员。Joycelyn指出,这是危险的权力。

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魁省Stanstead镇一间图书馆内一条黑线划分加美边境,100多年来一直是两国睦邻的象征。(图片来源:Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press)

美国官员可拒绝加拿大人放弃入境

在新法实施前,如果有人对预审查的提问感到不适,可以放弃入境,而不受到处罚。但是新法实施后,边境官员有权在发现“合理的理由”后拘留入境者,就连要求放弃入境也会被认为是拘留的合理理由。

加拿大移民律师Michael Greeene指出,即使边境官的提问有歧视性,入境者也会被扣留,被强制回答。

Joycelyn还指出,《预审查协议》的每项新条款措词含糊,令人担忧。例如,新条款39(2)称,“边境服务人员或其他公职人员不得在检查区范围内行使任何讯问,讯问,检查,搜查,扣押,没收,拘留或逮捕的权力,除非美国的法律将这种权力授予官员。”

也就是说,有关行动禁止执行,除非美国认为有必要。
 
在美国面前,加拿大就是一个违命是从的小弟。一切都是大哥说的算。
 
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