{"id":634338,"date":"2026-04-28T14:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/634338\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:59:15","slug":"spring-economic-statement-set-to-be-tabled-by-liberals-in-ottawa-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/634338\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring economic statement set to be tabled by Liberals in Ottawa &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/francois-philippe-champagne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne<\/a> is set to present the federal government\u2019s spring economic\u00a0statement in the House of Commons on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>April 28 is also the anniversary of the Liberals\u2019 win in last year\u2019s federal election. While Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/mark-carney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Carney<\/a> won a minority government at the time, he now has a majority and the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/spring-economic-statement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">spring economic statement<\/a> is expected to be adopted more quickly as a result.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberals last year switched the schedule for tabling the annual federal budget and the mid-year economic update, which in prior years had been presented in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Mark Carney unveils Canada\u2019s 1st sovereign wealth fund with $25B endowment'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Carney-web.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t3:55<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Carney unveils Canada\u2019s 1st sovereign wealth fund with $25B endowment\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>That makes this upcoming update the first under the Carney-led Liberal government, which opted to wait until last fall to present its federal budget plan.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The spring economic update comes a day after Carney announced that Canada is getting its first sovereign wealth fund, with an initial endowment of $25 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne is set to present the federal government\u2019s spring economic\u00a0statement in the House of Commons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,46,84062,2659,20739,714,231153,212011],"class_list":["post-634338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-francois-philippe-champagne","tag-mark-carney","tag-ottawa","tag-politics","tag-spring-economic-statement","tag-spring-economic-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634338","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=634338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}