6 • THURSDAY, July 1, 2021
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GOVERNMENT
ALBAS: talk of a summer election
Earlier this week was the last day the House of Commons will sit before it DAN ALBAS recesses for the summer. VIEW FROM If you THE HILL have been following media reports, you will also know that many are speculating this may well be the final sitting of Canada’s 43rd Parliament as rumours abound that the Prime Minister will call an election before the House is scheduled to return in September. Do I believe the election rumours? Curiously the Liberal omnibus budget Bill C-30, that is scheduled to be passed later today, extends current pandemic related benefits into September. There is no question that Prime Minister Trudeau will not want to head into an election without the pandemic benefits freely flowing as cutting off these benefits would be very unpopular politically. So it is conceivable that the Prime Minister desires to have an election using the ongoing benefits for political purposes. Although the Parliamentary Budget Officer has repeatedly stated that our current spending levels are not sustainable, our Prime Minister and his Finance Minister have stated that as long as interest rates See ‘POSSIBLE’ Page 7 remain low,
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