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Intelligence Memos
From: Don Drummond
To: The Office of the Prime Minister
Date: August 24, 2020
Re: Don't Forget a Fiscal Anchor for the Speech from the Throne
Prime Minister Trudeau has indicated the government will disclose expensive initiatives to Canadians in a Speech from the Throne on September 23.
Without also proposing very large tax increases, this new agenda would clearly abandon any…
Intelligence Memos
From: Alexandre Laurin and Benjamin Dachis
To: Finance Minister Bill Morneau
Date: May 25, 2020
Re: An Income Support Plan to Support the Recovery
The first cohort of Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) recipients are about to lose eligibility on July 5. Ottawa must announce soon what’s next.
As the province-by-province restart begins, income support needs to shift from broad-…
Intelligence Memos
From: Don Drummond
To: Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance
Date: December 16, 2020
Re: Through the Fiscal Fog: Large Deficits and Debt as Far as the Eye Can See
I recently set out four wildly differing federal fiscal scenarios for the future. Recent Government of Canada announcements lift the fog enough to narrow possibilities. We can now see clearly that the future…
Intelligence Memos
From: Don Drummond
To: Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development
Date: April 17, 2020
Re: Release EI data fast to track the COVID-19 damage
Many economists and policy authorities appear to have initially underestimated the economic blow from the COVID-19 pandemic, just as health authorities missed the depth of the blow to public health.
A consensus…
Intelligence Memos
From: William B.P. Robson and Farah Omran
To: Canada’s Ministers of Finance
Date: August 19, 2020
Re: Fiscal Accountability: Our Annual Report Card
With Canadian governments responding to the COVID-19 crisis with unprecedented spending and borrowing, the quality of the financial information they present is becoming more important than ever. While much of the financial…
Intelligence Memos
From: Jim Feehan
To: Electricity Policy Analysts, ratepayers and politicians
Date: February 25, 2020
Subject: The Muskrat Falls Electricity Project: A Hard Lesson
Arm’s length independent assessments of megaprojects are crucial for government decision-making. Governments that give them little weight risk imposing enormous burdens on the public, especially when projects are publicly funded.…
