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The federal government still has time to improve the 2024 budget—will it?
The following text is adapted from a speech delivered by David Macdonald, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, to the Senate’s committee…
Canada’s provinces have the surplus cash to properly fund social programs: report
OTTAWA—Despite doomsday predictions that the pandemic would hit Canada’s already financially strapped provinces with an even greater blow, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)…
Revenue losses now $7.5 billion a year under Ford
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If Doug Ford wants to make the case for more federal health funding, throwing away money is not the way to do it
A cure for deficit and tax phobia
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Now is not the time to get hysterical about the federal debt
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The federal deficit will become whose surplus?
On July 8th, the federal government will release its first fiscal update since December 16, 2019.
Platform Crunch: What spending cuts could mean in terms of job losses
Fiscal Measure 2020-21 ($mil) 2021-22 ($mil) 2022-23 ($mil) 2023-24 ($mil) 2024-25 ($mil) Maintain 2020-21 staffing levels in the Federal Government 0 48 211 351 558…
Platform crunch: Debt projections of the parties
Sector Deficit in 2018-19 fiscal year Corporate (non-banks) -$163 billion Households -$79 billion Provincial governments -$61 billion Federal government -$31 billion Source: Statcan Table 36-10-0580-01…
Quebec’s debt and the borrowing rate are related, but not in the way you think
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Service cuts funding tax cuts, not deficit reduction, FAO report indicates
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Avoid “the siren song of austerity,” Ontario business group says
It’s been about 40 years now that various right-wing politicians and business groups have been telling Canadians that the only way to deal with public…
Frame job: Ontario’s review of the books is an ideological exercise
The Ontario government’s attempt to discredit the former Liberal government by ordering a line-by-line review of the books has yielded its desired consequence: framing the…
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