Jim Flaherty
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Finance Minister Jim Flaherty freezes employment insurance premiums
The freeze is estimated to save businesses and workers $660 million next year
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Flaherty signals a cut in program spending to reduce budget
The Finance minister also mentioned renewing the country’s infrastructure, expanding trade relationships beyond the U.S. and small business tax breaks.
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Flaherty confident US will develop policy to avoid ‘fiscal cliff’
Finance minister encouraging U.S. authorities to avoid “slippage” in both U.S. and Canadian GDP
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Flaherty touts Canada’s resiliency in latest economic update
Falling revenues to push deficit up $5-billion to $26-billion, finance minster says
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Flaherty opens omnibus budget bill committee scrutiny
MPs will still make a single vote on the bill, even though it contains a collection of measures, some of which opposition parties oppose, others they support.
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Canada won’t dodge downturn: OECD
Canada, the U.S. and China are among the countries on track for an economic slowdown in the coming months, according to a report from the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development
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Balanced budgets by 2015 for most provinces
But not Ontario
