How accessible is your province’s budget? How well does it line up with audited financial statements? In this edition of Graphic Intelligence, we look at how the provinces stack up, and which ones have been overspending the most. In addition to a grade, our Pinocchio Index measures each regionʼs budget overruns since 2000. Hover over an entry for details.
To read more about our fiscal accountability grading of Canada’s senior governments, read “Controlling the Public Purse: The Fiscal Accountability of Canada’s Senior Governments, 2016,” by the Institute's Colin Busby and William B.P. Robson.
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C.D. Howe Institute | Source: Busby and Robson (2016); various Provincial and Federal Budgets and Public Accounts
