Canada’s senior governments have regularly missed budget spending and revenue targets during the last decade, according to a report by the C.D. Howe Institute. In "Canada’s 2012 Fiscal…
After years of “mission creep” at Canada’s Crown financial corporations, their activities have expanded far beyond their original mandates and need reassessment, according to a new report from the…
The federal government’s unfunded liabilities for its employee pension plans total $227 billion, far more than reported, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute…
A new study from the C.D. Howe institute lifts the veil on opaque budgeting and routinely missed spending targets in Canada’s major cities. In “Holding Canada’s Cities to Account: An…
Total budget overruns for Canadian federal, provincial and territorial governments amounted to $82 billion over the past decade, revealing a continuing lack of accountability to voters about…
