OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government put the brakes on its spending spree in the latest budget released Wednesday, as US policies and EU elections cast a haze over the global economic outlook.

The proposed budget limits new spending to Can$5.7 billion ($4.3 billion) over six years—about 10 times less than the Liberals’ inaugural budget last year.

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