{"id":338889,"date":"2025-12-10T07:13:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338889\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T07:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:13:17","slug":"watchdog-regrets-calling-canadas-fiscal-position-stupefying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338889\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog Regrets Calling Canada\u2019s Fiscal Position \u2018Stupefying\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Canada\u2019s budget watchdog is walking back his most charged criticisms of Mark Carney\u2019s fiscal policy, but says the government\u2019s decision to drop its debt-to-GDP guideline is a major shift that warrants more public debate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Soon after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbo-dpb.ca\/en\/staff--equipe\/jason-jacques\" title=\"Jason Jacques biography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Jason Jacques<\/a> was appointed interim parliamentary budget officer in September, he called the Canadian government\u2019s debt position \u201cunsustainable\u201d and \u201cstupefying,\u201d pointing to the prime minister\u2019s mounting spending pledges. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s budget watchdog is walking back his most charged criticisms of Mark Carney\u2019s fiscal policy, but says the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,2065,13110,5693,164,17119,3786,4217,15324,188463,10839,3586],"class_list":{"0":"post-338889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-debt","13":"tag-economics","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-gdp","16":"tag-government","17":"tag-infrastructure","18":"tag-international-monetary-fund","19":"tag-kevin-j-page","20":"tag-policy","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}