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Canada’s — when federal and provincial liabilities are combined — sits among the higher end of G7 comparators in 2025, with analyses placing the combined debt‑to‑GDP around , which is comparable to so...
Canada signed a deal in January 2023 to acquire 88 F‑35A aircraft with an announced acquisition price of CAD 19 billion (reported as $19 billion in Canadian government materials) and life‑cycle costs ...
Official forecasts and independent analysts point to continued borrowing for Canada through 2026 but show the federal debt burden stabilizing or slowly improving relative to GDP: the government projec...
Canada’s government says defence spending for 2025–26 will rise sharply to meet NATO targets, with announcements pointing to roughly CAD 62.7–63 billion for 2025–26 and an $81.8‑84+ billion, five‑year...
Provincial debt-to-GDP ratios in 2024/25–2025 rose from pre‑COVID (2019/20) levels in nearly every analysis, contributing to a higher combined federal‑provincial debt‑to‑GDP share that the Fraser Inst...
Canada’s federal projections for 2025 are contested: early-2025 baseline forecasts showed a modest decline to roughly , while later analyses (September 2025) by budget watchdogs project the ratio will...
Canada’s government announced a 2025–26 “top‑up” of over CAD 9 billion that, together with previously planned defence spending, brings planned defence outlays for 2025–26 to about CAD 62.7–63 billion ...
Canada’s combined federal–provincial net debt is projected at roughly , while provincial debt burdens vary sharply from (Fraser Institute figures). No source in the provided material offers a direct, ...
Canada’s official fiscal publications reviewed here do present a single-line projected dollar figure for interest payments on the national debt in calendar year 2025; instead they report related measu...
Brookfield is the focus of multiple reports alleging it paid significantly less tax than peers between 2017 and 2021, with one independent research group quantifying a and an unusually low effective r...
Canada’s planned purchase of 88 F‑35As was budgeted at roughly C$19 billion for acquisition while lifecycle costs were previously estimated at about C$70–74 billion; a 2025 Auditor‑General review and ...
Canadian announcements in 2025 put planned defence-related authorities for 2025–26 at roughly CAD 62.7–63 billion (including a June “top‑up” of about CAD 9 billion and other departments’ defence‑relat...
The federal Budget 2025 does not promise a single, explicit $X-to-2%-of-GDP formula for Defence; instead Ottawa’s path to reach NATO’s 2% target by 2026 relies on a combination of planned budget items...
Canada’s NATO pledge is to reach an annual defence-spending level equal to 2% of GDP, and most public reporting frames that as an ongoing annual target rather than a one‑off cumulative amount . Curren...
G7 countries do not have a single, coordinated commitment to cut ; existing documents and projections instead show a mix of rising debts, selective declines, and policy frameworks that prioritize grow...
Canada’s debt‑to‑GDP ratio in 2025 is presented inconsistently across available analyses: one estimate places Canada at in 2025, markedly higher than Germany, while other data suggest Canada’s public ...
During the period covered by the supplied reporting, ; the available pieces focus on domestic deficits, announced investment projects, and fiscal governance concerns rather than cross‑country debt ran...