<time datetime="2023-04-05T06:00:00-04:00">April 5, 2023</time>
Executive Summary
Public-sector investment funds (especially pension funds) have been increasingly pooled and managed by investment…
<time datetime="2023-03-23T11:39:24-04:00">March 23, 2023</time>
Ottawa Needs a New Approach to Fiscal Policy
The current federal fiscal…
<time datetime="2022-12-06T00:00:01-05:00">December 6, 2022</time>
The Study In Brief
The onset of the pandemic saw a high degree of coordination between our monetary and fiscal authorities. The…
<time datetime="2021-06-01T15:49:30-04:00">June 1, 2021</time>
Manitoba’s Soaring Land Transfer Taxes Need Reform
- In “Damage Control: Options for Reforming the Land Transfer Tax in Manitoba,” authors Bev Dahlby and Jack Mintz…
<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…
Intelligence Memos
To: Canadian fiscal observers
From: Munir A. Sheikh
Date: January 31, 2024
Re: Cure for the Public Debt Pandemic: An Economic-Principles-Based Fiscal Anchor
Governments across the…
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…
