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His March 19, 2019 budget — his last before the Oct. 21 election — now predicts a $19.8 billion deficit.

The final number will probably be a bit lower if Trudeau wins re-election, because governments always pad their initial deficit estimates.

But it will also be another case of Trudeau massively missing his deficit promises to Canadians in 2015.

To be clear, Trudeau didn’t just predict what his deficits for the next four years would be in 2015, he promised Canadians he would achieve those numbers.

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In the leaders’ debate on the economy in 2015, Trudeau, looking dramatically into the camera said: “I am looking straight at Canadians and being honest the way I always have. We’ve said we are committed to balanced budgets and we are. We will balance that budget in 2019.”

But that was then and this is now.

Trudeau’s 2019-20 budget didn’t just fail to balance the federal budget during a time of relative economic strength — and heaven help us when we face the next recession, as we inevitably will.

In that budget, Trudeau predicts if he’s returned to power, Canada under his leadership will have a $19.7 billion deficit in 2020-21, $14.8 billion in 2021-22, $12.1 billion in 2022-23 and $9.8 billion in 2023-24, with no end to deficits in sight.

Trudeau’s election platform in 2015 also said he would reduce Canada’s debt-to-GDP ratio, a key indicator of the country’s economic health, to 27% by 2019-20. His March 2019 budget puts it at 30.7%, meaning he blew past that target as well.