<time datetime="2024-02-15T00:00:01-05:00">February 15, 2024</time>
<time datetime="2024-02-06T06:00:00-05:00">February 6, 2024</time>
Study in Brief
- The current spending review underway in Ottawa is a modest start and should be followed by…
<time datetime="2023-02-23T00:00:01-05:00">February 23, 2023</time>
Introduction and Overview
With the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic behind us, a concerning trajectory of federal…
<time datetime="2022-09-15T00:00:01-04:00">September 15, 2022</time>
The Study in Brief
Canada’s senior governments raise and spend huge amounts, and have legally unlimited capacity to borrow when…
<time datetime="2022-03-10T11:48:03-05:00">March 10, 2022</time>
The Study in Brief
- The federal government’s massive spending and borrowing during the COVID-19 pandemic has…
<time datetime="2020-10-01T00:01:00-04:00">October 1, 2020</time>
- Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial governments have spent a combined total of $97 billion more than they promised in their budgets since 2000, a figure set to worsen with the…
Intelligence Memos
To: Canadian Budget Watchers
From: Don Drummond and William B.P. Robson
Date: April 24, 2024
Re: The 2024 Federal Budget Gets a Grade of D
Before the federal budget, we laid…
Intelligence Memos
To: Canadian public finance watchers
From: William B.P. Robson
Date: April 23, 2024
Re: An Unserious Budget With Unserious Projections
Last week’s federal budget showed again –…
Op-Ed
This week’s federal budget focuses on spending initiatives that, in the name of intergenerational fairness, it asks the wealthiest among us to pay for. A better way to finance new spending would be…