Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he hopes to see “billions of dollars” in cuts in the upcoming Liberal government’s first budget under Prime Minister Mark Carney, which is set to be tabled in November.
“There needs to be billions of dollars of reductions in the federal bureaucracy,” Poilievre said in an interview on CTV’s Question Period with Vassy Kapelos that is set to air on Sept. 21.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has said that his government’s upcoming budget, to be released on Nov. 4, would bring austerity, but he has remained vague on the specifics surrounding the planned cuts.
A day prior to Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s Sept. 16 announcement of the budget release date, Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon told reporters that the deficit is “substantial and needs to be dealt with, and is being dealt with with incredible seriousness by the entire government,” while declining to provide more details….