Rick Perkins at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On December 9th, 2024. See this statement in context.

December 9th, 2024 / 4:10 p.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

As the Minister of Finance, you must know what the deficit is, since we're almost three quarters of the way through.

Are you going to stick to the $40 billion you told Parliament you would not go above? That was your fiscal guardrail, and it wasn't going to go above that.

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