<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…