The following is excerpted from the 10 August 2011 edition of CBC News.

The global economic uncertainty poses "obvious risks" to Canada but it won't change the government's plan to slash spending and balance the books, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Wednesday.

Flaherty said the Conservative government's plan to eliminate the deficit by 2014-15 by finding $4 billion per year in savings is a "responsible approach" and the current global economic turmoil will not cause him to veer from it...

This article is available in its entirety on the CBC News website at:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2011/08/10/pol-flaherty.html

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