Economic, public safety issues to be focus when Parliament resumes
Posted Jan 26, 2015 3:51 am.
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OTTAWA – The House of Commons resumes sitting Monday and Prime Minister Harper says he’ll try to make economic and public safety issues the main focus.
Harper re-iterated the government’s agenda during a campaign-style speech in Orleans Sunday.
The recent collapse in oil prices has sucked billions out of the federal treasury and forced the government to delay the budget.
But Harper says he still intends to balance the budget this year and go ahead with all the pre-election tax goodies his Conservatives announced last year.
He says despite global economic turmoil, Canada is heading in the right direction.
The governing Conservatives are in for a grilling on economic issues from the opposition this session, which will likely the last before a fall election.
Liberal MP Ralph Goodale says the economy will dominate because the problems confronting Canada have grown more significant.
New Democrat MP Nathan Cullen says the government should be careful what it wishes for by vowing to play up its economic record.
