Canada's Oliver does not see a housing or mortgage crisis

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian government is watching the housing and mortgage market carefully, but does not see a crisis, Finance Minister Joe Oliver said on Thursday. "We're going to monitor the market, but we don't think we're confronting a crisis at this point," he told CTV News. He noted that the government had intervened a number of times to cool the market. Oliver also said the federal budget was well on track to achieve a surplus of C$6 billion ($5.5 billion) in the fiscal year that begins next April, on top of a contingency reserve. (Reporting by Randall Palmer. Editing by Andre Grenon)