{"id":647468,"date":"2026-05-04T16:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/647468\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T16:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:05:24","slug":"finance-minister-hints-at-possible-affordability-measures-should-oil-prices-remain-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/647468\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Hints at Possible Affordability Measures Should Oil Prices Remain High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/pardy-to-board-of-trade.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Finance Minister Hints at Possible Affordability Measures Should Oil Prices Remain High\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finance Minister Craig Pardy speaking to the Board of Trade (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Among the promised items missing from this year\u2019s budget was the rotational worker tax credit. <\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Craig Pardy acknowledged that there were a number of promised initiatives not included in this year\u2019s fiscal plan, but he says they\u2019re coming. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo we have everything in there? No, we don\u2019t. Are some things easier  to put in there than others? Yes they are.\u201d He says anything to do with tax relief requires working with the federal government and the CRA.<\/p>\n<p>Pardy told the Board of Trade on Friday that if the price of oil remains elevated, more affordability measures could be coming later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Finance Minister Craig Pardy speaking to the Board of Trade (VOCM News) Among the promised items missing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-647468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647468","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=647468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}