<time datetime="2021-02-25T00:00:01-05:00">February 25, 2021</time>
Perplexing Budgets Overstate Financial Pain of Cities
- William B.P. Robson and Miles Wu look at the annual budgetary projections for spending and the bottom line in…
<time datetime="2021-02-02T00:00:01-05:00">February 2, 2021</time>
Economists Outline Causes and Cures for Newfoundland and Labrador’s Fiscal Woes
- Leading economists Don Drummond and Louis Lévesque turn a spotlight on the root causes…
<time datetime="2020-10-20T00:01:00-04:00">October 20, 2020</time>
Canada in ‘Economic and Fiscal Fog,’ Needs Real Debate on Future Path
- Canada needs a national debate over its economic and fiscal future, according to Don Drummond,…
<time datetime="2019-02-07T11:05:50-05:00">February 7, 2019</time>
February 7 –…
<time datetime="2018-12-13T06:00:00-05:00">December 13, 2018</time>
Canada’s municipalities are routinely missing the spending targets in their budgets by large amounts, undermining the ability of voters to hold them accountable, according to a new study from the…
<time datetime="2018-05-01T00:00:01-04:00">May 1, 2018</time>
Canada’s senior governments tax and spend a lot, but don’t consistently tell us what they are doing, says a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “The Numbers Game: Rating the Fiscal…
Op-Ed
In its November Fall Economic Statement, the federal government presented a long-term projection that shows its debt ratio — that is, federal debt divided by GDP — declining smoothly over the…
Op-Ed
Before the release of the federal 2023 Fall Economic Statement, we laid out a framework for grading it. We hoped for transparency about the government’s finances, frankness about the…
Intelligence Memos
From: Don Drummond and William B.P. Robson
To: Fiscal observers
Date: November 1, 2023
Re: A Grading Framework for the Upcoming Federal Economic & Fiscal Update
The 2023 federal…
