{"id":265,"date":"2016-05-11T06:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T06:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2025-05-16T06:17:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T06:17:26","slug":"balanced-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/2016\/05\/11\/balanced-budgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Balanced Budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><small>Published on May 07, 2016<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Maxime Bernier was the first declared leadership candidate to sign Generation Screwed&rsquo;s Future Generations Protection Pledge.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&nbsp;committed to:&nbsp;<br><br>1. Present a balanced budget to the House of Commons within 24 months after taking office &#8211; stopping the federal debt clock;&nbsp;<br><br>2.&nbsp;After the budget is balanced, commit to running ONLY balanced budgets at all times outside of war or natural disaster; and<br><br>3.&nbsp;Legislate a debt repayment schedule, dedicating a portion of annual revenues towards eliminating the debt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on May 07, 2016 Maxime Bernier was the first declared leadership candidate to sign Generation Screwed&rsquo;s Future Generations Protection Pledge.&nbsp; He&nbsp;committed to:&nbsp; 1. Present a balanced budget to the House of Commons within 24 months after taking office &#8211; stopping the federal debt clock;&nbsp; 2.&nbsp;After the budget is balanced, commit to running ONLY balanced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}