{"id":262530,"date":"2025-11-05T04:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/262530\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T04:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:09:13","slug":"federal-deficit-hits-the-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/262530\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Deficit Hits The Roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne projects the 2025 deficit will be 192 percent higher than forecast but advised Canadians to sleep well tonight. The deficit, originally targeted at $26.8 billion, is now closer to $78.3 billion: \u201cTonight people will go to bed and say, \u2018We\u2019re going to be okay.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>This content is for Blacklock\u2019s Reporter members only. Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blacklocks.ca\/login\/?redirect_to=\/federal-deficit-hits-the-roof\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">login<\/a> to view this content. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blacklocks.ca\/wp-login.php?action=register\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Register here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>\t\tThis entry was posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blacklocks.ca\/category\/all-issues\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Issues<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blacklocks.ca\/category\/all-issues\/issue-1\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Issue 1<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blacklocks.ca\/author\/tom\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tom<\/a>. Bookmark the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blacklocks.ca\/federal-deficit-hits-the-roof\/\" title=\"Permalink to Federal Deficit Hits The Roof\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">permalink<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne projects the 2025 deficit will be 192 percent higher than forecast but advised Canadians&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-262530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}