Achieving Balance, Spurring Growth: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2012

Canada is in the happy position of being able to address its fiscal challenges not just through eliminating deficits, but also by promoting growth in the economy and the tax base, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In Achieving Balance, Spurring Growth: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2012, authors Alexandre Laurin and William B.P. Robson present, first, an accelerated plan to achieve budgetary surplus in three years; and second, a series of low-cost initiatives designed to foster economic growth.