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| Presented | 11 December 1979 |
|---|---|
| Parliament | 31st |
| Party | Progressive Conservative |
| Finance minister | John Crosbie |
1980 › | |
The 1979 Canadian federal budget was presented by Minister of Finance John Crosbie in the House of Commons of Canada on 11 December 1979. [1] It was the first and only Canadian federal budget presented under the premiership of Joe Clark. It was never adopted, as the government was defeated in a vote of confidence on a budget subamendment on December 13, 1979.
The budget is tabled six-and-a-half months after the 1979 Canadian federal election where the Progressive Conservatives led by Joe Clark won 136 seats, falling 6 seats short of a majority. On paper, support from any one of the three other official status parties (Liberal, NDP or Social Credit) would be enough to pass a budget should all the PC MPs vote likewise.
The economic climate was still precarious with a series of mixed signals during 1979: [2]
Despite having campaigned on tax cuts during the 1979 Canadian federal election, Joe Clark's first budget contained several measures that departed from that. The budget included an 18-cent per gallon tax increase on gasoline, a 10 percent tax increase tobacco products, and a corporate surtax amounting to 1 percent of their income taxes. Farmers, Fishermen, and public urban transit were to receive a 10 percent gasoline tax rebate. [1]
The Gasoline tax (officially designated Energy Tax in the budget speech [6] ) was implemented at midnight between December 11 and December 12, the night the budget was announced. This led many Canadians to rush to the gas stations to buy "cheap gas" before the gas tax came into effect at midnight that night. When the government fell on December 13, the gas tax was rolled back, along with other budgetary measures that were provisionally implemented. [7]
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The day following the presentation of the budget, the Liberals and the New democrats vowed to do everything they could to bring down the government. The Social Credit Party also announced that they would not support the budget. [8] Before the no-confidence vote, Joe Clark entered negotiations with Socred leader Fabien Roy to obtain their support for the budget. Clark offered to double the energy tax credit proposed in the bill, but to no avail. Roy believed Joe Clark had come to him too late to obtain their support for the budget, and thus left too little time for negotiations. NDP finance critic Bob Rae proposed a subamendent stating that the House did not approve of the budget. The subamendent carried by a vote of 139 to 133, bringing down the government. [7]
| Party | Yea | Nay | Abstention | Absent | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PC | 133 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| LPC | 0 | 113 | 0 | 1 | |
| NDP | 0 | 26 | 0 | 0 | |
| Social Credit | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| Total | 133 | 139 | 5 | 4 | |
Following the fall of the government, Pierre Elliot Trudeau decided to walk back his resignation from the leadership of the Liberal Party. Trudeau ended up defeating Joe Clark, and in the 1980 Canadian federal election the Liberals were swept back into power with a majority government.
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