However, the surplus for the April-through-November period of the 2007-08 fiscal year was just $200-million shy of the $6.9-billion recorded over the same period in the 2006-07 fiscal year, a year in which it posted a near $14-billion surplus.
The report was the second piece of good news for the Canadian economy Friday, following a warning a day earlier by the Bank of Canada a day earlier that growth would slow a lot more than it expected this year.
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Thanks be to the brave souls of Fort Chip, in dieing for the sake of the Conservative's "surplus"!!<p>---<br>"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." <br />
-Max Planck<br />
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<p>---<br>"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."<br />
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William Blake<br />
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"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
-Max Planck