LendingWatch has been established, in order that Canadians may contribute to the real-time monitoring of their financial system, its overall health, evolution, and regional trajectories.

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Cycle: Budget 2009

Source of Summary Information:

Annex B: Table B2 and B3

Key Information for the Government's Progress Reports to
Assist Parliamentary Monitoring and Oversight of Budget 2009

Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer

Areas: Finance, Lending, Borrowing, Financial Institutions

Goal: Improve Access to Lending Through Canada's Financial Institutions

If the desired outcome is to:

• Improve access to financing for Canadians households and businesses
• Providing lenders with stable long-term financing allowing them to continue lending to Candians consumers
• To safeguard financial stability in Canada

Through

• Extension of the Insured Mortgage Purchase Program
• New Flexibilities and Resources for Financial Crown Corporations
• A New Canadian Securities Regulator

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Then

• What should we be watching?
• What evidence would prove that these goals have been achieved?
• Are these the goals we should be aiming for? 

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