Finance Minister Eric Girard presents his 2022-2023 budget for Quebec on Tuesday. He does not rule out a quicker return to balanced budgets and sets himself the challenge of achieving it “without the citizens realizing it”.
Minister Girard expected the structural deficit to be below $3 billion for 2022-2023. A year ago, he predicted in his last budget that the structural deficit, which does not take into account elements related to the economic situation, would exceed 6 billion. “The economy has ‘performed’ very well in 2021, an exceptional performance, he said. Quebec did better than Canada, the United States and Ontario. »
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