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https://policyoptions.irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Business-expenditure-on-RD-Figure-1.png576402After more than 10 years of balanced budgets and robust growth, Canadians are waking to a new decade faced with challenging fiscal deficits and competitiveness pressures constraining growth. Fortunately, public opinion in Canada recognizes the dangers of deficits and rising debt that plagued Canada from the 1970s to late 1990s, and now firmly rejects both, […]