As the Liberals prepare to table their economic update next week, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s banker buddies are stepping in to defend his government’s high-spending ways.
Speaking to Bloomberg News last week, Nigel Chalk, director of the International Monetary Fund’s Western Hemisphere department, said that among the G7 economies, “Canada’s probably in the strongest position fiscally,” and lauded the Carney government’s “very strong focus on the debt path.”
