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The headline is misleading because the Ottawa Citizen is owned by conservative fanboys, PostMedia. Carney promised a balanced budget but his budget guy said that's not going to happen since making good on his campaign promises is more costly than initially expected and balancing would require a budget cut. They're not doing that. That's just taken out of context for the headline.

But in an interview, Giroux said that the promise of a cap on the public service will not be enough to mitigate Carney’s additional spending. He said he expects higher deficits, and as a result, higher debt servicing charges over the next few years.

Emphasis mine.

“To balance or to pay for these types of additional spending there would need to be severe cuts to the public service, significant cuts,” Giroux said.

There would need to be cuts to balance the budget. That's why they're not going to balance the budget.