China News Service, Toronto, November 22 (Reporter Yu Ruidong) The Canadian Federal Parliament resumed its meeting on November 22.
The minority government led by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will face the challenge of smoothly implementing its governance plan.
The new House of Representatives elected in the fall general election continued to elect Anthony Rota as Speaker of the House of Representatives by secret ballot.
As a member of the ruling Liberal Party, Rota became Speaker of the House of Representatives for the first time in December 2019.
According to the new regulations announced earlier, all personnel, including members of the Senate and House of Representatives, must in principle be fully vaccinated against the new crown before they can enter Congress.
Those who cannot be vaccinated due to medical contraindications need to show proof that the virus test result is negative.
Data map: Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau.
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Trudeau said that the public expects members of Congress to work together to deal with the most important issues for the country.
Although the Federal Liberal Party led by Trudeau won the general election in late September this year, it failed to win more than half of the seats in the House of Representatives and continued the minority government situation.
The new cabinet was sworn in on October 26.
According to data released by Statistics Canada on the 22nd, due to the new crown epidemic, the Canadian government, including federal, provincial, and municipal governments, has a record-breaking deficit of 325.5 billion Canadian dollars in 2020, accounting for nominal GDP ( 14.8% of GDP).
In 2018, the government's comprehensive fiscal balance was balanced, and the deficit in 2019 was 40.7 billion Canadian dollars, accounting for 1.8% of nominal GDP.
More than 84% of the total deficit comes from the federal government.
Compared with 2019, the federal government deficit has increased nearly 12 times.
At the same time, the total debt of the Canadian government in 2020 will reach 129.2% of GDP, which is also a record high.
The debt is nearly 75,000 Canadian dollars per capita, which is equivalent to an increase of more than 10,000 Canadian dollars in debt for each Canadian in the past year.
The Governor of Canada, Mary Simon, will deliver a throne speech in the Senate on the 23rd, announcing the policy plan of the new government.
The policy plan needs the support of the opposition party.
The Trudeau government announced a month ago that with the gradual recovery of the economy, the authorities will adjust the current anti-epidemic relief measures and introduce new support measures for enterprises and employed people.
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