SpendingWatch has been established, in order that Canadians may contribute to the real-time monitoring of consumer indexes and patterns.

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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: Spending, Purchasing, Investing
Goal: Actions to Help Canadians & Stimulate Spending
 
If the desired outcome is to:

• Provide reassurance that (EI clients) will have financial support for a longer period while they find new employment… provide additional income support to unemployed otherwise have exhausted their benefits.
• To expand the availability of training delivered through the EI program by provinces and territories… especially those in industries hardest it by the global economic turmoil.

Through

• Extension of the Insured Mortgage Purchase Program
• Employment Insurance Training Programs

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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?

Join the discussion here.