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  Ottawa to eliminate deficit in 14 months; to run surplus afterwards

  The federal government's books will be back in balance in little more than a year and run a surplus from that point on, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Monday in generally upbeat testimony given separately to both the Senate and Commons finance committees.

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  Watchdog to probe Ottawa's $7-billion budget surprise

  The surprising revelation last week that Ottawa is almost $7 billion ahead of schedule for eliminating the deficit is attracting the scrutiny of the budget watchdog.

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  RCMP, Finance Dept. drop probes into 2013 federal budget leak

  The RCMP and Finance Department have dropped their probes into a leak of information from 2013 federal budget -- a leak critics say was likely orchestrated by the government itself.

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  Ottawa's cost-cutting budget will eliminate 14,000 jobs: watchdog

  The federal government's most recent "jobs and growth" budget will wind up costing Canada both jobs and economic growth over the next few years, the Parliamentary Budget Officer says in a new report.

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  Public sector cuts will slash front-line services: analysis

  The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says public service spending cuts have mostly focused on service delivery, contradicting the Harper government's assurances that cuts would spare front-line resources.

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  NDP calls on RCMP to investigate budget leak for possible market manipulation

  The RCMP should investigate last week's federal budget leak about tariff reductions because it could have allowed insiders to manipulate markets, the Opposition New Democrats charged Monday.

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  Canada to update tariff system for first time since 1974: Will it hurt consumers?

  For the first time in 39 years, Canada is updating its preferential tariff regime, increasing tariffs on more than 1,000 items imported from 72 different countries.

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  Hockey gear cheaper, but tariff changes likely to widen Canada-U.S. price gap

  Canadians will be paying hundreds of millions of dollars more on everything from food to bicycles because of a little-noticed change in tariffs Ottawa places on imports from emerging nations like China and India, say analysts.

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  Budget 2013: Is Ottawa really on track to balance the books?

  The Conservatives may keep their promise to balance the books by 2015, but the payoff will be more political than economic, says one economist on the day after the new budget was unveiled in Ottawa.

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  Budget 2013: CIDA to be merged with Foreign Affairs

  A 45-year-old federal agency that's spent billions trying to improve the lives of people around the world is being eliminated.