The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on all the federal political party leaders to let Canadians know where they stand on the issue of a balanced budget.
Atlantic Director Paige MacPherson says the Liberals ran on the promise to have a balanced budget and then promptly broke that promise.
“Failure by the Trudeau government to honour its promise to balance the budget will result in an additional 100 billion dollars in federal debt added by 2024. It means taxpayers are on the hook for debt interest payments costing 24 billion dollars for this year,” stated MacPherson.
The CTF says the Trudeau government has been on a major pre-election spending spree this summer and people need to realize where that money is coming from.
MacPherson said, “We do see federal government ministers coming to the region and doing just that, trying to buy votes with our own money and that is unfortunate because it’s maybe not going to be us who will be paying for it, it will be our kids because of the amount of debt they are wracking up.”
CTF is challenging all federal leaders to tell them how they are planning to balance the budget before the election is called.
