Liberals, Conservatives haggle over a deficit that is both smaller and larger

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Tabling the spring economic update in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne celebrated his government's fiscal discipline.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was unpersuaded.