With Deficit Closing in on $400 Billion, Liberals Detail More Spending to Come

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland listens to a question from a reporter on the phone during a news conference in Ottawa on Nov. 30, 2020. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld

OTTAWA—The federal Liberals are proposing $25 billion in new spending to help Canadian businesses and workers make it through a COVID−19 winter and vowing tens of billions more to help the country recover from the pandemic.

The government’s fall economic update proposes to send extra child−benefit payments to families next year as well as cash for skills training and to create new jobs.