finance ministers

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and her provincial and territorial counterparts say housing, pensions and economic growth will be hot topics as they gather in Toronto for their annual meeting. “I am sure that we will be discussing housing, which is the central priority for so many Canadians today,” she said in opening remarks delivered before […]

Provincial finance ministers appeared divided into two camps going into a Tuesday meeting in Ottawa with federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau, who indicated that few concrete decisions would be made at the gathering. Ministers from Alberta and Newfoundland and Labrador declared the need to expand the fiscal stabilization program as their top priority in talks […]

Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau will provide his first update for Canadians today on the state of the economy — and the government’s books — since the October election. The update comes as Morneau prepares to host provincial finance ministers for two days of talks this week, in which the amount of federal assistance provided […]