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Freeland will give fall economic statement Nov. 21 amid affordability crunch
The federal government will give an update on the country’s finances later this month, with Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland set to deliver the fall economic statement as Canadians face difficulties amid high interest rates and ongoing cost of living concerns.
09.11 / 17:59
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Canada govt to release annual fall economic statement on Nov. 21
OTTAWA (Reuters) — The Canadian government will release its annual fall economic statement (FES) on Nov. 21, the finance ministry said on Thursday.
07.11 / 17:43
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John Turley-Ewart: Why opposing the RBC-HSBC merger is a bad look for the Conservatives
Last Thursday, the House of Commons finance committee called on Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to scrap the proposed merger between Royal Bank of Canada and HSBC Bank Canada. Led by Conservative MPs, who echoed media interviews given by Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, the report from the 12-person committee dismissed the due diligence process used to assess proposed bank mergers.
02.11 / 23:21
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RBC’s takeover of HSBC Canada may raise banking fees for Canadians, MPs say
The House of Commons finance committee has asked Ottawa to reject Royal Bank of Canada’s $13.5 billion acquisition of HSBC’s domestic unit, citing the lack of competition in Canada’s financial sector.
02.11 / 05:19
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Alberta’s CPP exit would put millions of retirements at risk, Freeland says
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says Alberta’s proposed plan to withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan would put the retirement of millions at risk.
31.10 / 20:17
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Live news: Mark Carney questions Liberals' carbon tax retreat on home heating oil
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says she will meet provincial and territorial finance ministers later this week to discuss the possibility of Alberta’s withdrawal from the Canada Pension Plan (CPP).
21.10 / 14:23
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Airbnb and others are rental affordability lightning rods. Will reforms help?
As politicians pitch tighter regulations on the short-term rental market as a path to housing affordability in Canada, there is renewed debate about whether tougher crackdowns on Airbnb and others like it will make a notable improvement.
20.10 / 18:55
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Pierre Poilievre says Canada should block RBC, HSBC merger
The leader of Canada’s main opposition political party says the government should block HSBC Holdings PLC’s sale of its local operations to Royal Bank of Canada.
18.10 / 12:39
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Ottawa forcing big banks to use OBSI to resolve customer complaints
The federal government is forcing Canada’s big banks to take unresolved customer complaints to a single independent dispute-resolution body — one that three of the country’s largest financial institutions have stopped using over the years as a result of disagreements over how it dealt with complaints.
18.10 / 11:35
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Tired of banking fees? Ottawa pushes for more no-, low-cost accounts
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says she is directing the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) to work on making no- and low-cost bank accounts more readily available for Canadians.
06.10 / 06:57
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Champagne says these 5 new measures will stabilize food prices ‘soon’
The federal government will be taking five measures that mean food prices should stabilize “soon,” Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne announced in Ottawa Thursday.
26.09 / 23:53
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Ottawa making financing cheaper for more builders to spur rental construction
The Liberal government’s latest plan to get more rental housing built is to expand a program that helps developers secure cheaper mortgage rates as higher interest costs affect the viability of new projects.
21.09 / 22:19
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Can Ottawa make a dent in housing, grocery prices? What a new bill would do
The Liberal government is looking to spur the construction of new rental stock and increase competition in industries like Canada’s heavily concentrated grocery sector as part of a new bill aimed at improving affordability for Canadians facing a cost of living crisis.
18.09 / 20:33
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Grocery heads agree to ‘support’ Ottawa’s efforts to ‘stabilize food prices’
affordability issues dogging Canadians.Champagne told reporters before question period Monday afternoon that it was an “historic day” to have the heads of Canada’s biggest grocers in one place, and said the roughly two-hour meeting between Ottawa and the executives had “difficult discussions” but a “constructive tone.”“The large grocers have accepted to work with the government of Canada,” Champagne said.“This is a step in the right direction. … this is just the beginning.
16.09 / 22:49
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Canada's housing crisis will take years to solve -finance minister
(Reuters) — An affordable housing crisis that is hurting the Canadian government's popularity will take years to resolve, even if construction hits an 80-year high, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Saturday.
14.09 / 15:39
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Joe Oliver: Liberals on the same path of self-inflicted ruin as the Soviets
The Soviet Union ultimately collapsed from internal contradictions related to a faltering ideology, limited free speech, economic mismanagement, deteriorating international influence and an inability to deliver on promises of a better life that were painfully obvious to all but were not, for fear of brutal reprisal, discussed publicly until near the very end. Justin Trudeau’s leftist woke government is afflicted by similar if milder contradictions that in our free country the aggrieved population living under them is discussing quite openly — which suggests the government’s dissolution will come faster.
08.09 / 00:41
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Bank of Canada ‘remains independent’ amid political comments: Macklem
Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem reaffirmed the central bank’s independence on Thursday in response to politicians weighing in on the institution’s interest rate decisions over the past week.
28.08 / 14:47
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Will Trudeau’s government breach the David Dodge Rule?
The sharp escalation of global bond yields in recent weeks raises the prospect we may be in the middle of a structural shift to a world of permanently higher borrowing costs.
20.08 / 13:31
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Searching for Trudeaunomics: After three years at finance, Chrystia Freeland’s second act is still unclear
Ahead of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet shuffle last month, there was — for a brief Ottawa minute — speculation the government shakeup would include the departure of Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, who also serves as the country’s finance minister.
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