Press Progress
Donate
Nice try, Mr. Minister
Nice try, Mr. Minister
This article is more than 7 years old

Nice try, Mr. Minister

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty spun a good story this week with the release of the government’s economic and fiscal update. The government even produced a short video, narrated by Flaherty, about how Canada is doing. Here’s a reality check on some of Flaherty’s key talking points.     Photo: bcgovphotos. Used under a Creative Commons BY 2.0 […]

November 13, 2013

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty spun a good story this week with the release of the government’s economic and fiscal update. The government even produced a short video, narrated by Flaherty, about how Canada is doing. Here’s a reality check on some of Flaherty’s key talking points.

 

 

Photo: bcgovphotos. Used under a Creative Commons BY 2.0 licence.

Report an Error
Journalistic Standards
About PressProgress
economy federal budget jim flaherty policy What the fact?

Most Shared

Related Stories

WE'RE PROTECTING CANADIANS BY HOLDING THE POWERFUL ACCOUNTABLE

Journalism is an important public service. That’s why we’re prioritizing stories aimed at keeping Canadians safe and holding the powerful accountable.

LEARN MORE SUPPORT OUR JOURNALISM
Inconvenient numbers bust government's fiscal update spin
Inconvenient numbers bust government's fiscal update spin

Inconvenient numbers bust government’s fiscal update spin

The Conservative government is up to its old tricks: using selective statistics and incomplete numbers to talk up its economic and fiscal record. Check out how these key lines in the annual Update of Economic and Fiscal Projections, released Tuesday, don’t really hold up. Exhibit 1: Canada’s job creation numbers “Over 1 million more Canadians […]

November 12, 2013

The Conservative government is up to its old tricks: using selective statistics and incomplete numbers to talk up its economic and fiscal record.

Check out how these key lines in the annual Update of Economic and Fiscal Projections, released Tuesday, don’t really hold up.

Exhibit 1: Canada’s job creation numbers

“Over 1 million more Canadians are working today than at the time of the trough in employment in July 2009. These new jobs are overwhelmingly full-time positions in the private sector,…

Continue Reading

More from Press Progress

Ontario Education Minister: Thousands of COVID-19 Cases in Schools is a ‘Good Thing We Should Celebrate’

November 24, 2020 Video

Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce is taking a glass half-full...

One of Canada’s Biggest Far-Right Facebook Pages is Quietly Run By a Corporate-Sponsored Instagram Celebrity

November 24, 2020 Exclusive

Page spreading conspiracies about election fraud and pedophiles is run...

Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister Asks CBC Journalist Why She Didn’t Help Him Protect Manitobans From COVID-19

November 23, 2020 Video

“Premier, I am not an elected official”

Older Stories