Canada financial update coming next week [Video]

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is set to table the federal government’s fall economic statement on Dec. 16, the government announced Monday.

Freeland, in a press release, said the “government is focused on delivering fairness for every generation,” and doing so “in a fiscally responsible way.”

The press release does not detail the location or timing or the fall economic statement, only the date.

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The fiscal check-in will happen just one day before the House of Commons is expected to adjourn for the year, after months of procedural wrangling over a Conservative-led privilege debate.

The revised look at the books comes amid questions over the potential economic impact of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s looming threat of 25 per cent tariffs on all imports from Canada and Mexico, until the two stop the flow of illegal …