Government Spending: David Ljunggren

David Ljunggren: OTTAWA - Canada's Conservative government on Wednesday promised to introduce legislation that will require balanced budgets except during economic crises, and renewed a pledge to balance its books by 2015, according to Reuters. The Conservatives, who portray themselves as the only party capable of leading Canada through tough economic times, said they would cut government spending, sell off some federal assets and trim the public service and By David Ljunggren and Randall Palmer It also said it would soon wrap up free trade talks with the European Union, and announced that Prime Minister Stephen Harper would travel to Brussels on Thursday "with the goal of concluding the ... negotiations." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.