The Liberal government's centrepiece election promise to raise taxes on the biggest income earners while cutting the rate in a lower bracket has passed the House of Commons. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is making clear his government won't stick to a cap of 10-billion dollars on budget deficits if it means curbing spending to grow the economy. (The tax changes passed in the Commons will siphon about 1.2 billion dollars annually from the treasury over the next five years.)

Date: 2015-12-09
Placeline: OTTAWA.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 22 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << look we're going to remain open with Canadian if there's a down a downturn in the economy we will be open with you about what that means for our projection but the two that the goal of what we're doing is to invest and give support in the it to the middle class to invest in our communities so that we can create the kind of growth that under 10 years of Stephen Harper we simply weren't able to achieve >>

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