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   From: Panca@nyet.ca   
      
   Now the lying from the Cons starts . . . . heading into a federal election with   
   the cupboards bare.  Anyone really think that Finance Minister Joe Oliver   
   factored in the falling price of oil - considering they'd already made   
   announcements on how to spend the small surplus they had - BEFORE the price of   
   oil plunged?   
      
   These truly are Cons . . . . and it's more than an abbreviation of their   
   party's name.   
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   Thu Dec 4, 2014   
      
   Canada's Harper confident of budget balance despite cheap oil   
      
   OTTAWA (Reuters) - The sharp decline in oil prices should not prevent Canada's   
   Conservative government from balancing its budget next fiscal year, Prime   
   Minister Stephen Harper said on Thursday.   
      
   He noted that the federal government does not get direct royalties from oil   
   companies, though it does receive corporate taxes; and he said Finance Minister   
   Joe Oliver had provided for cheap oil in the fall economic and fiscal update he   
   presented on Nov. 12.   
      
   "This has a complex effect upon the economy, complex effect upon ultimately our   
   federal finances, but for greater assurance, in the fall federal fiscal update   
   the minister of finance made considerable allowance for additional uncertainty   
   generated by the fall in oil price, so we remain very confident that the budget   
   will be in balance next year," Harper told a televised news conference in   
   Markham, Ontario.   
      
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