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Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on March 30, 2012
By William Robson and Alexandre Laurin
Since Jim Flaherty became federal Finance Minister in 2006, circumstances have forced a series of budget improvisations. The 2008 financial crisis and the slump in 2009 put the minority Conservative government in lend-and-spend mode, and the fiscal aftermath and the continuing need to appease multiple…
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on March 28, 2012
By Colin Busby and Alexandre Laurin
Ontario’s controversial deficit-cutting budget, tabled Tuesday, will be passed around like a political hot potato by opposition parties at Queen’s Park. Should it get enough votes to pass parliament, it would sprinkle cost-cutting measures across provincial programs, freeze planned reductions in corporate income…
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on April 27, 2012
By Finn Poschmann
The financial press burst into a minor tizzy Thursday, in a quest to digest the housing and finance market implications of the 2012 budget implementation bill Finance Minister Jim Flaherty tabled in the House of Commons.
Notwithstanding the bill’s 431 pages, what grabbed attention was a few short sections overhauling Canada…