Mark Carney ridicules Pierre Poilievres budget plan [Video]

TROIS-RIVIÈRES, QUE. — Liberal Leader Mark Carney says there is a realistic chance his economic plan could eliminate the federal budget deficit within five years, but that he refrained from putting the claim on paper because it is irresponsible to make assumptions about growth during U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade crisis. 

Carney made the comment at a machine parts factory in this Quebec battleground riding on Tuesday, as he ripped into Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives for baking “phantom” numbers about expected tax revenues from economic growth into their policy platform released earlier in the day, less than a week before the federal election on April 28.