{"id":176459,"date":"2025-12-09T20:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/176459\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T20:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:18:06","slug":"watchdog-regrets-calling-canadas-fiscal-position-stupefying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/176459\/","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":176460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[972,114,245,1575,5603,184,3153,234,85,4426,19127,46,103631,4555,1299],"class_list":["post-176459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-canada","tag-debt","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-gdp","tag-government","tag-il","tag-infrastructure","tag-international-monetary-fund","tag-israel","tag-kevin-j-page","tag-policy","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}