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New budget will hurt city: PSAC Mayor applauds gas-tax funding for city infrastructure, pans lack of a national housing strategy
Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty arrives to deliver the federal budget in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill yesterday. More coverage on page 6 and at metronews.ca/ottawa.
The government’s promise to eradicate the deficit a year ahead of schedule is sparking fears of public-service cuts in Ottawa. The budget tabled before the last election included a review of the public service aimed at balancing the books by the 2015-16 budget — but Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced yesterday he’s moving that target up a year. Patty Ducharme, national executive vice-president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, said the accelerated pace for deficit elimination will have a “huge impact” on public-service jobs and Ottawa. (Public servants) “pay their taxes, they buy locally here in
Ottawa, they support their families and they support the local economy,” Ducharme said. “If they don’t have jobs that’s going to obviously have an impact on the local economy. It will have an impact on everything from retail stores to the value of real estate in Ottawa.” The cuts will equal five per cent of the government’s $80 billion in annual discretionary spending — which may impact life in Ottawa, said Mayor Jim Watson. “We ... need to see what the impact the five per cent cut to spending will mean for the public service, and what that impact will mean to our local economy and residents,” he said in a press release. JESSICA SMITH