s most powerful
leaders emerged from the G20 Summit with an agreement for advanced economies to cut their deficits
in half by 2013 and stabilize their debt loads by 2016.
"The G20 still has a lot to do to fully entrench the global recovery, but these are important steps forward and, as you know, they are steps that Canada was seeking," said Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who spearheaded the deficit-fighting plan.