Freeland relied heavily on government talking points during the 80 minutes she let the finance committee question her on the federal budget
“One thing that I learned during the NAFTA negotiations is that appeasing a bully never works,” she said. “And that tends to be my approach in life.”
Freeland took partisan shots at Conservative finance critic Jasraj Singh Hallan when he suggested Freeland had misled Canadians in projecting a return to a balanced budget within five years in her fall economic statement presented in November 2022, given that her federal budget tabled just a few months later abandoned any plans to return to balance.
Committee member NDP MP Daniel Blaikie said that, given that members had spent quite some time arguing about the extra hour in her presence, he appealed to Freeland for “some more generosity” with her time in taking questions about the federal budget. Conservative MP Adam Chambers later said that Freeland’s reluctance to appear in front of MPs for more than an hour was to blame for the malfunction of the committee.
Now time is running out to pass the Budget Implementation Act, known as Bill C-47, before the House of Commons rises for the summer in late June.
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