Reading Time: 3 minutes Adi Astl took matters into his own hands and built steps down an unsafe pathway in a Toronto Park which the city had been unwilling to build for 10 years
Tag: Government debt and deficit
Trudeau should accept responsibility for spending choices
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Liberals won’t commit to a specific timeline to balance the books even though the deficit this year is expected to reach $28.5 billion
How will B.C.’s NDP pay for deal with Greens?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Will a Horgan-led government keep the NDP’s election promise to balance the budget and, if so, how in the face of Green-driven spending plans?
Fed’s per-person spending among highest in history
Reading Time: 3 minutes The main rationale of the added spending by the Trudeau government was to stimulate economic growth, an unnecessary goal
Ontario reopens spending tap, exposing province to more risk
Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite tabling Ontario’s first balanced operating budget in a decade, there are signs the government plans to go right back to undisciplined spending
Budget 2017 spells the end of the Chretien Consensus
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Trudeau government’s second budget is essentially an extension of its first. Deficits continue, debt is growing, spending is up and taxes are rising
Repair Quebec’s finances by better controlling government pay
Reading Time: 3 minutes Enact measures that link the wages and benefits of government employees to similar positions in the private sector
No prosperity without a return to the Chretien Consensus
Reading Time: 4 minutes Governments across Canada rejecting policies that worked for a set of alternatives that have consistently failed
Did the Alberta government really slow down spending growth?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The recently released fiscal update shows program spending up nearly 10 per cent from last year’s level
The myths and reality of infrastructure spending in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes The case for massive increases in government infrastructure spending doesn’t withstand scrutiny