{
  "id": 8938330,
  "title": "Taxpayer watchdog tells Ottawa to slash debt, spending as MPs return",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/taxpayer-watchdog-tells-ottawa-to-slash-debt-spending-as-mps-return",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-21T14:27:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Toronto Sun",
    "slug": "toronto-sun",
    "url": "https://torontosun.com/news/national/taxpayer-watchdog-tells-ottawa-to-slash-debt-spending"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "“Canadians can’t afford to pay more than $1 billion every week to cover interest charges on the government credit card,\" said Franco Terrazzano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}