{"id":3861,"date":"2015-01-01T18:35:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T23:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3861"},"modified":"2015-01-01T18:35:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T23:35:50","slug":"prospect-of-deficit-threatens-conservative-governments-best-laid-plans-toronto-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3861","title":{"rendered":"Prospect of deficit threatens Conservative government’s best laid plans | Toronto Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prospect of deficit threatens Conservative government’s best laid plans | Toronto Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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TTAWA\u2014Prime Minister Stephen Harper\u2019s government faces a roller-coaster ride in the coming months as it tries to balance Ottawa\u2019s books and implement a lavish program of family-oriented tax cuts and spending in advance of an election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Conservatives have been saying 2015 will be the year they end seven years of consecutive budget deficits and bring in billions of dollars worth of goodies for voters in keeping with promises made in the last election in 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But the linchpin of this strategy \u2014 running a budget surplus \u2014 has been thrown into doubt by the sudden, unexpected plunge in world oil prices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Depending on what happens to the always volatile price of a barrel of crude, the Harper government could find itself on the verge of an embarrassing slide back into a budget deficit in 2015.<\/p>\n

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Prospect of deficit threatens Conservative government’s best laid plans | Toronto Star. TTAWA\u2014Prime Minister Stephen Harper\u2019s government faces a roller-coaster ride in the coming months as it tries to balance Ottawa\u2019s books and implement a lavish program of family-oriented tax cuts and spending in advance of an election. The Conservatives have been saying 2015 will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1927,103,2323,201,1775,749],"class_list":["post-3861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-budget","tag-canada","tag-conservative-government","tag-deficit","tag-oil-price-collapse","tag-stephen-harper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3862,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions\/3862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}