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GOLDSTEIN: PBO says federal spending, borrowing and debt up, economic growth down

Parliamentary Budget Officer Annette Ryan released her economic and fiscal outlook for October this week, based on the spending of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government.

Heading into the feds’ Nov. 5 budget, it’s not pretty.

The general tone was summed up by the first sentence in her press release: “Federal spending, borrowing and debt continue to rise amid weaker economic growth” and it gets worse from there.

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