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Ottawa turns a $158M surplus in June, but cites timing - Business - CBC News
Despite the warning not to get our hopes up, does this show that Flaherty might actually be able to keep his 'balanced by 2015' promise? If the Feds are posting surpluses, no matter how small or coincidental, I have hope for a balanced budget.
Thoughts?
PS Credit to Flaherty, he was always one of the few of Harper's cabinet I did not hate.
The federal government says it posted a small budgetary surplus of $158 million in June, a far stronger fiscal result than last June's $1 billion deficit.
But the Finance Department took care to caution Canadians that the rare black ink does not signal a major turning point in the government's struggle to eliminate the deficit.
Despite the warning not to get our hopes up, does this show that Flaherty might actually be able to keep his 'balanced by 2015' promise? If the Feds are posting surpluses, no matter how small or coincidental, I have hope for a balanced budget.
Thoughts?
PS Credit to Flaherty, he was always one of the few of Harper's cabinet I did not hate.