Want Chretien-Style Cutbacks

Cabinet must cut spending 15 percent, says a Canadian Chamber of Commerce submission to the Commons finance committee. The figure represents the steepest cuts since then-Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s 1995 austerity program that eliminated 45,000 federal jobs: “Canadians are right to be concerned.”

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