Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s economy is weakening with storm clouds on the horizon while federal finances are woefully unprepared for a recession
Author: Jason Clemens
Jason Clemens is the Executive Vice President of the Fraser Institute and the President of the Fraser Institute Foundation. He has published over 70 major studies on a wide range of topics, including taxation, government spending, labor market regulation, banking, welfare reform, health care, productivity, and entrepreneurship.
Federal government tax cuts miss the mark
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need smart tax cuts that improve incentives for workers, entrepreneurs and investors, along with a balanced budget
Keep federal government from messing with education
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s kindergarten-to-Grade 12 system flourishes because it’s controlled by the provinces, which often show great innovation and creativity
Activist Liberal government produces red ink and alienation
Reading Time: 4 minutes Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is following in the footsteps of his father. That’s leading to fiscal calamity and regional dissent
We must get federal government spending in check
Reading Time: 4 minutes Despite higher-than-budgeted revenues, there’s been no reduction in the federal deficit in the last four years
Government spending must be a federal election issue
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sound fiscal policy can come from any party. Canadians need facts, not fiction and rhetoric
Federal budget full of puzzling contradictions
Reading Time: 3 minutes With one hand, the government gives. With the other hand, it takes away benefits to taxpayers
“Inevitable” recession will seriously derail federal finances
Reading Time: 4 minutes The government must apply the brakes on spending in the spring budget and focus on deficit reduction
Undoing the damage to the Canadian economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes It will require a major shift in policy at both the federal level and in many provinces
Alberta should look abroad, and next door, for health care solutions
Reading Time: 3 minutes Spending continues to rise but Albertans have diminished access to care and face above-average wait times