translate English to French: The international community was showing increasing discomfort with the country’s indebtedness: the federal government was still adding almost $40 billion annually to the debt, which had grown in the previous decade to 71 per cent of GDP ($508 billion).
Les marchés internationaux étaient de plus en plus préoccupés par l’endettement du Canada. Année après année, près de 40 milliards de dollars venaient s’ajouter à la dette nationale, qui avait atteint 71 p.