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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Introduction and Overview.

• Maintaining Sound Financial Management.
• Five-Year Tax Reduction Plan.
• Making Canada's Economy More Innovative.
• Improving the Quality of Life of Canadians and Their Children.
• Summary of Spending and Tax Actions.

Chapter 2 - Economic Development and Prospects.

• Highlights.
• Introduction.
• Recent Economic Developments.
• The Economic Outlook and Risks.

Chapter 3 - Maintaining Sound Financial Management.

• Highlights.
• Canada's Fiscal Progress in Perspective.
• Fiscal Outlook: The Two-Year Planning Horizon to 2001-02.

Chapter 4 - Five-Year Tax Reduction Plan.

• Highlights.
• Introduction.
• Five-Year Tax Reduction Plan.
• Restoring Full Protection Against Inflation in the Tax System.
• Reducing the Tax Burden for Middle-Income Canadians.
• Increasing Support for Middle- and Low-Income Families With Children.
• Overall Size of Personal Income Tax Relief.
• Making the Economy More Internationally Competitive.
• Examples of Tax Reductions for Typical Individuals and Families by 2004.

Chapter 5 - Making Canada's Economy More Innovative.

• Highlights.
• Introduction.
• Investing in Research and Innovation.
• Promoting Environmental Technologies and Practices.
• Strengthening Federal Provincial and Municipal Infrastructure.

Chapter 6 - Improving the Quality of Life of Canadians and Their Children.

• Highlights.
• Introduction.
• Increasing Support for Post-Secondary Education and Health Care.
• Investing in Canada's Children.
• Opportunities for Canadians With Disabilities.
• Quality of Life and Security for Seniors.
• Assisting the Homeless.
• Supplementary Information.

Annexes

1 - Spending, Tax Relief and Debt Reduction Since the 1997 Budget.

2 - The Budgetary Balance, Financial Requirements/Surplus, and the National Accounts Budget Balance.

3 - The Restoration of Fiscal Health in the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Government Sector.

4 - Canada's Financial Progress in an International Context.

5 - Fiscal Outlook: Sensitivity to Economic Assumptions.

6 - The Government's Response to the Auditor General's Observations on the 1999 Financial Statements.

7 - Tax Measures: Supplementary Information and Notices of Ways and Means Motions.

    - Notice of Ways and Means Motions.

 

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