Well, today is the Liberal/NDP Non-Coalition Coalition Budget Day!

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Seems to me when I brought my rental car back with 347 dents the hail stones were the size of golf balls .
From Calgary? 347 golf ball size would have been a structural write off.

Volume. Pea-marbe size will strip a forest bare and get a foot deep. Golf ball size - a few per square ft, marble size - 20+ per square in.
 
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From Calgary? 347 golf ball size would have been a structural write off.

Volume. Pea-marbe size will strip a forest bare and get a foot deep. Golf ball size - a few per square ft, marble size - 20+ per square in.
Happened up near Ft. Nelson . Will see if I can find the pictures . Every panel had dents was a scary ride . About six inches deep on the highway nowhere to turn around or hide . Fortunately once we hit the hill it stopped . At the top of the hill going the other way we’re a group of cyclists heading into it . Have always worried about them .
The pounding noise was deafening , put on our sunglasses in case the windshield shattered . We stopped for a moose five or so miles down the road , they must have tough hides . My wife grabbed a handful off bottom of the windshield and yes they were the size of golf balls and hard as a rock . I am getting the shakes just thinking about it .
That was the trip from hell , forest fires everywhere .
 

Ron in Regina

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The truth is we were headed into tough economic times regardless of who won the April 28 election. A major reason – which Prime Minister Mark Carney noted prior to the vote – was the polices of his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, whose decade-long government presided over the worst record of economic growth in Canada since the Great Depressionso we re-elected them…again?

That’s the situation the Carney government is facing, which also would have been the case if Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives had won the election.
What’s concerning is that having diagnosed the problems correctly, Carney seems to be following the path of the Trudeau (who Carney is not, he kept telling us) government, which he warned against leading up to the April 28 election.

Carney’s campaign platform, released on April 19, calls for $130 billion in new spending over the next four years, dramatically increasing federal deficits that had been projected by the previous Trudeau government in its fall economic statement last December.

Carney plans to run a deficit of $62.3 billion in this fiscal year, which started on April 1 and ends on March 31, 2026, compared to $42.2 billion by the previous Trudeau government.

In the 2026-27 fiscal year Carney’s projected deficit is $59.9 billion compared to Trudeau’s $31 billion, in 2027-28 $54.8 billion compared to $30.4 billion, and in 2028-29, $47.8 billion compared to $27.8 billion.

In total, Carney is projecting deficit spending of $224.8 billion over the next four years compared to $131.4 billion projected by the Trudeau government, an increase of 71%.
No doubt the Trudeau government, had it survived, would have increased its deficit projections for the coming fiscal years, but the 71% increase over four years projected by the Carney government indicates that the new Liberal government will be following the same economic path as the previous one.
1746891539512.jpegDoing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is the definition of insanity.
 
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Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne signalled Wednesday there will be no spring budget and only a fall economic statement, despite his predecessor announcing pre-budget consultations earlier this year.

Asked by reporters about the date of the next budget, Champagne said his first three orders of business are tabling a motion to cut the bottom income tax bracket by one per cent, presenting a speech to the throne on May 27 and then publishing an economic update in the fall.

He made no mention of a budget, nor did he respond to repeated questions as to why the government would not be tabling a spring budget.

“The middle-class tax cut, that’s step one. Step two, you’re going to have a throne speech which will outline the Canadian government’s priorities, and there will be a fall economic statement to follow,” Champagne said after the first cabinet meeting since the shuffle Tuesday.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said the decision not to table a budget is a sign that Carney is failing to deliver on his election campaign promises to Canadians.

“Parliament has already been shut down for nearly half a year. Now, in the face of serious economic threats, the Liberals don’t intend to present a budget this year. There is no roadmap forward, no economic vision, and no willingness to lead,” said Poilievre, in a written statement. “This is not the leadership Mark Carney promised—it’s abandonment.”
 
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Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne signalled Wednesday there will be no spring budget and only a fall economic statement, despite his predecessor announcing pre-budget consultations earlier this year.

Asked by reporters about the date of the next budget, Champagne said his first three orders of business are tabling a motion to cut the bottom income tax bracket by one per cent, presenting a speech to the throne on May 27 and then publishing an economic update in the fall.

He made no mention of a budget, nor did he respond to repeated questions as to why the government would not be tabling a spring budget.

“The middle-class tax cut, that’s step one. Step two, you’re going to have a throne speech which will outline the Canadian government’s priorities, and there will be a fall economic statement to follow,” Champagne said after the first cabinet meeting since the shuffle Tuesday.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said the decision not to table a budget is a sign that Carney is failing to deliver on his election campaign promises to Canadians.

“Parliament has already been shut down for nearly half a year. Now, in the face of serious economic threats, the Liberals don’t intend to present a budget this year. There is no roadmap forward, no economic vision, and no willingness to lead,” said Poilievre, in a written statement. “This is not the leadership Mark Carney promised—it’s abandonment.”
Nothing will change until after G7 and there is always War Measures Act potentially looming. A good hearty war always fires up industry in just months.
 
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Nothing will change until after G7 and there is always War Measures Act potentially looming. A good hearty war always fires up industry in just months.
Or…we have the same Liberal government (for its consecutive fourth term) and they where able to play fast and loose for the last three terms without consequences, so why bother with a Spring budget?
 
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Or…we have the same Liberal government (for its consecutive fourth term) and they where able to play fast and loose for the last three terms without consequences, so why bother with a Spring budget?
Because it will just get voted down. We're broke. If you want know how much deeper in debt we go just use Security Exchange Commission search engine EDGAR. All of Canada's bond issues are posted thru SEC.

Like this recent bit of pocket change.

March 31, 2024 is being filed to include as an exhibit to such form the Opinion and Consent of General Counsel, Finance Legal Services, Department of Justice (Canada) prepared in connection with the offering of U.S. $3,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Canada’s 4.000% United States Dollar Bonds due March 18, 2030 (the “bonds”) described in Canada’s prospectus supplement dated March 11, 2025 (the “prospectus supplement”) to its prospectus dated February 27, 2025 (the “prospectus”) relating to bonds registered on Registration Statement No. 333-283961.

That portion of the bonds offered by the prospectus supplement and prospectus sold or to be sold in the United States or in circumstances where registration of the bonds is required has been registered under registration statement no. 333-283961. Such portion is not expected to exceed an aggregate principal amount of U.S. $895,000,000. Following the completion of the offering of the bonds offered by the prospectus supplement and the prospectus, an aggregate of U.S. $7,105,000,000 will remain registered on registration statement no. 333-283961.

The exhibits to Canada’s Annual Report on Form 18-K for the year ended March 31, 2024, are hereby amended to include the following:

Exhibit E:  Opinion and Consent of General Counsel, Finance Legal Services, Department of Justice (Canada)

It is estimated that the expenses of Canada in connection with the sale of the bonds will be as follows:



Filing Fee(1)

U.S. $83,112.00
Legal

100,000.00
Miscellaneous Expenses

16,888.00






U.S. $200,000








(1)
Calculated based on filing fee of U.S. $109.10 per U.S. $1,000,000 for U.S. $8,870,000 of debt securities registered in 2021 and U.S. $92.70 per U.S. $1,000,000 for U.S. $886,130,000 of debt securities registered in 2022.



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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this Amendment No. 2 to its annual report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, at Ottawa, Canada, on the 17th day of March, 2025.



CANADA
By: /s/ Charles Perreault
Charles Perreault

Senior Director


Reserves Management Section


Funds Management Division


Department of Finance


Government of Canada



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EXHIBIT INDEX



Exhibit No.
E: Opinion and Consent of General Counsel, Finance Legal Services, Department of Justice (Canada)




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Ron in Regina

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Because it will just get voted down.
Bloc has already said that they will support the liberals for the first year…so probably not voted down. Blanchet stressed it would not be a blind alliance, adding he expects Prime Minister Mark Carney’s party to make concessions on French-language protections, Quebec’s immigration capacity, the province’s secularism Bill 21 and “pipelines” ‘cuz Quebec, etc…

Blanchet said partisanship should be put aside for the time being, adding he cannot fathom another election for at least a year and some months as negotiations with Trump could intensify ahead of the U.S. midterm elections…so there’s that.
 

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Bloc has already said that they will support the liberals for the first year…so probably not voted down. Blanchet stressed it would not be a blind alliance, adding he expects Prime Minister Mark Carney’s party to make concessions on French-language protections, Quebec’s immigration capacity, the province’s secularism Bill 21 and “pipelines” ‘cuz Quebec, etc…

Blanchet said partisanship should be put aside for the time being, adding he cannot fathom another election for at least a year and some months as negotiations with Trump could intensify ahead of the U.S. midterm elections…so there’s that.
French language is fine by me but I'm not cool with immigration to Quebec being lowered for two reasons. Firstly French language. It keeps the Haitians in Quebec. Secondly high immigration to Quebec keeps the Haitians in Quebec. I like our Nigerians, I don't want Haitians coming here because the Feds take them in.
 

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French language is fine by me but I'm not cool with immigration to Quebec being lowered for two reasons. Firstly French language. It keeps the Haitians in Quebec. Secondly high immigration to Quebec keeps the Haitians in Quebec. I like our Nigerians, I don't want Haitians coming here because the Feds take them in.
PS. I don't think Blanchet has the balls.
 
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Because it will just get voted down. We're broke. If you want know how much deeper in debt we go just use Security Exchange Commission search engine EDGAR. All of Canada's bond issues are posted thru SEC.

Like this recent bit of pocket change.
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Or…we have the same Liberal government (for its consecutive fourth term) and they where able to play fast and loose for the last three terms without consequences, so why bother with a Spring budget?
Not like there isn’t a template for this already established by recent Liberal governments that kept getting voted in by someone somewhere in Canada.
 

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Blanchet said partisanship should be put aside for the time being, adding he cannot fathom another election for at least a year and some months as negotiations with Trump could intensify ahead of the U.S. midterm elections…so there’s that.
Translation: The block does not have enough money to fight another election.
 
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Ron in Regina

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How bad do federal finances have to be for Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals to announce they won’t release a federal budget this year? Instead, Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said Wednesday that the Liberals will deliver a fall economic statement; ostensibly a mini-budget.

But that’s no comfort given that the last fall economic statement the Liberals delivered in December 2024 under former prime minister Justin Trudeau, overshot their own deficit target of $40.1 billion for the 2023-24 fiscal year by 54%, coming in at $61.9 billion.
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According to parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux, that document also lacked transparency, downplayed the economic risks facing taxpayers, including rapidly increasing contingent liabilities, and was evidence of the government’s deteriorating “ability (or willingness) to produce high-quality, timely financial statements.”
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The Liberals’ failure to deliver a budget this year — the last time that happened was during the pandemic — is inexplicable given Carney’s release of what was supposed to be their “fully costed” campaign platform less than a month ago, on April 19.
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It called for $130 billion in new spending over four years, with a deficit of $62.3 billion in this fiscal year, which started on April 1 and ends on March 31, 2026, compared to $42.2 billion predicted by the previous Trudeau government.
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In 2026-27, Carney’s projected deficit is $59.9 billion compared to Trudeau’s $31 billion, in 2027-28 $54.8 billion compared to $30.4 billion, and in 2028-29, $47.8 billion compared to $27.8 billion.
In total, Carney’s projected deficits of $224.8 billion over the next four years is an increase of 71% compared to $131.4 billion projected by the Trudeau government.
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Carney’s platform also contained detailed information on the Liberals’ anticipated revenues and expenditures from 2025-26 to 2028-29, so any Liberal claim they don’t have the necessary information to deliver a budget when Parliament resumes on May 26 is absurd. Round four folks.