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Podcast: Faytene TV
Episode: More Unpacking the Federal Budget 2021
Description: The Federal government tabled their first budget in two years this past April 19th with a colossal projected deficit of over $150 billion on top of the previous year’s deficit of three hundred and fifty billion. In 2019, just prior to the pandemic, three hundred and fifty billion was the amount of the entire budget which means Canada spent twice as much in the twenty-twenty to twenty-twenty-one fiscal year as we did the year prior and our federal debt has now broken the one trillion mark. As of the filming of this show, each Canadian’s pers...