QUEBEC – Falling oil prices will reduce Ottawa’s fiscal flexibility but will not prevent the government from posting a balanced budget next year, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Tuesday.”You should be under no doubt that the government will balance its budget next year,” he said in Quebec City after a local announcement. “We are well within that range. Even with dramatically lower oil prices, we will balance the budget.”This will obviously reduce some of our fiscal flexibility but it will not by any means stop us from reaching a balance and at the same time making the important investments we’ve …read more
Source: National Newswatch
