{"id":307549,"date":"2025-12-09T20:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/307549\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T20:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:25:08","slug":"watchdog-regrets-calling-canadas-fiscal-position-stupefying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/307549\/","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":307550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[428,84,626,460,4229,1294,2184,80,464,10793,122893,305,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-307549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-debt","12":"tag-economics","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-gdp","15":"tag-government","16":"tag-infrastructure","17":"tag-international-monetary-fund","18":"tag-kevin-j-page","19":"tag-policy","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}