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L’alternative budgétaire pour le gouvernement fédéral 2003
Download 1.35 MB L’Alternative budgétaire pour le gouvernement fédéral 2003-2004 : La solution au budget commun Faits saillants de l’ABGF Approche macroéconomique et fiscale Le…
Olympics cannot be justified on economic grounds
(Vancouver) Hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics cannot be justified on economic grounds alone. That is one of the key findings of Olympic Costs and Benefits: A…
Olympic Costs & Benefits
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Proposed Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games Download 282.37 KB31 pages
The Chretien legacy budget
Promises unkept and challenges unmet Budgets are perhaps the single most important policy moment in the life of a government. Budgets are about choices. They…
Federal Liberals break their 50:50 budget-sharing promise
CCPA analysis CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA–Prime Minister Jean Chretien, during both the 1997 and 2000 federal election campaigns, promised that future…
A Funny Way of Sharing
Revisiting the Liberal Government’s “50:50” Promise Download 255.56 KB14 pages
FastFacts: Neighbourhoods Making Decisions
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BC Solutions Budget 2003
Download 253.1 KB25 pages Read the news releases here and here. Attachments Summary: BC Solutions Budget 2003
All social and economic problems caused by an unfair distribution of wealth
“The world holds enough to satisfy everyone’s need,” Mahatma Gandhi once observed, “but not everyone’s greed.” In these few words he identified the main cause…
No change of course in BC Budget means painful and unnecessary cuts continue
Many British Columbians were hoping that Tuesday’s provincial budget would bring a compassionate re-think of the government’s fiscal plan. Unfortunately, the pain and upheaval of…
Olympic trade-offs
Proponents of the 2010 Winter Olympics claim that the Games will provide major economic benefits to British Columbians-so much so that the economic returns would…
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