{"id":443921,"date":"2026-01-30T22:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/443921\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T22:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:44:10","slug":"federal-deficit-26-4b-for-april-to-november-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/443921\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal deficit $26.4B for April-to-November period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government posted a deficit of $26.4 billion for the first eight months of its 2025-26 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In its fiscal monitor, the Finance Department says the result compared with a deficit of $22.7 billion for the same April-to-November period a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Revenue for the period totalled $317.2 billion, up from $311.3 billion a year ago, helped by increases in customs import duties due to the countermeasures imposed in response to U.S. tariffs, and corporate and personal income tax revenues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Program expenses excluding net actuarial losses amounted to $304 billion, up from $294.9 billion boosted by higher direct program expenses, major transfers to persons and major transfers to provinces, territories and municipalities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Public debt charges were $36.3 billion, down from $36.4 billion, due to lower short-term interest rates on treasury bills and lower net interest on cross-currency swap transactions and other liabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Net actuarial losses amounted to $3.3 billion, up from $2.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 30, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government posted a deficit of $26.4 billion for the first eight months of its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,47,714],"class_list":["post-443921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-national","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443921","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=443921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}