Liberals will table a budget this fall, Prime Minister Mark Carney says [Video]

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday morning in Rome that his Liberal government will table a budget this fall — a decision he argued is the right one because there’s “not much value” in rushing out a budget at the earliest opportunity.

“We will have a much more comprehensive, effective, ambitious, prudent budget in the fall,” Carney said at a media conference in Rome, where world leaders have gathered to commemorate Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural mass.

“You do these things right and that’s what we’re going to do.”

The Liberals have faced sharp criticism from their opponents since Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said on Wednesday that the Liberals would not table a budget this spring and instead present a “substantive” fall economic statement, which is like a mini-budget.

Carney defended his government waiting until the fall to table a budget and argued “there’s not much value in trying to rush through a budget …