Reading Time: 3 minutes Any flicker of hope the Trudeau government will ever balance the budget has vanished
Tag: Federal budget
2023 budget finally limits vampire consulting firms in the public service
Reading Time: 4 minutes Under the Liberals, the cost of consulting firms has mushroomed from $8.4B in 2015 to an estimated $21.4B this year
Trudeau budget could lead to increase in food inflation
Reading Time: 4 minutes The so-called “grocery rebate,” a one-time handout to the needy, won’t do much for Canadians over time
Trudeau bingeing on alcohol tax hikes in 2023
Reading Time: 3 minutes Uses inflation to covertly increase its tax take every year on April 1
Nothing prudent about Freeland’s fiscal update
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ottawa’s culture of frivolous spending and never-ending deficits needs to end
Recession for who? Not government employees
Reading Time: 3 minutes Federal bureaucrats, who weathered the pandemic in comfort, are now asking for a 14 per cent pay raise
Ottawa depending on economic blue skies to balance the budget
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s time for Ottawa politicians to take deficits seriously again
Think 2020 is tough? 2021 shaping up to be even tougher
Reading Time: 4 minutes When the government’s miraculous money faucet is turned off, what happens next?
Federal finances on a razor’s edge
Reading Time: 3 minutes The federal government can’t continue to ignore the warning signs of a slowing economy. It should limit discretionary spending now
Growing debt a clear and present danger to Canadian economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s debt has grown faster than the economy. That dangerous pattern casts a shadow over the nation’s long-term financial health