To answer your questions, a big part of the government's plan to wind down the deficit is to ensure that the plan is temporary and winds down as planned. Just doing that reduces the deficit from $56 billion to something like $27 billion.
December 8th, 2009 / 4:50 p.m.
Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Economic and Fiscal Policy Branch, Department of Finance
To answer your questions, a big part of the government's plan to wind down the deficit is to ensure that the plan is temporary and winds down as planned. Just doing that reduces the deficit from $56 billion to something like $27 billion.
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