<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 public finance watchers From: Don Drummond and William B.P. Robson Date: March 27, 2024 Re: There Are No Excuses for April Budgets Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland…
Op-Ed
Along with rampant spending, erratic tax changes, and mounting debt, the federal government is developing another bad fiscal habit: its budgets are getting later. The government has announced that it…
Op-Ed
Federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has announced that the 2024 federal budget will be delivered on April 16. That is more than two weeks after the April 1 start of the budget year: fiscal…