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Feds pledge billions to ‘finish the fight’ against COVID as fiscal update projects deficit at $144.5-billion

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's second fiscal update forecast deficits in decline and sets aside funds to stem the pandemic’s spread amid the ‘mounting threat of Omicron.’

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN
December 14, 2021

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