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Fulfilling the Promise of the Parliamentary Budget Office: Bill C-476
Before there was a Parliamentary Budget Office, there was no way to independently assess the federal government’s economic and fiscal forecasts. In the late-1990s, we…
Our Way or the Norway
One of goals in my paper, The Petro-Path Not Taken, was to compare Norway and Canada-Alberta’s record in distributing petroleum wealth amongst persons and amongst provinces.…
Canada vs. Norway: The Petro Path Not Taken
Momentum is building across Canada on the need to develop a sustainable national energy strategy. On this front, Canada and Alberta, its main petro-province, has…
The Petro-Path Not Taken
Comparing Norway with Canada and Alberta’s Management of Petroleum Wealth Download 1.79 MB 80 pages This report compares the Canada and Alberta experience of managing oil…
A Tale of Two Petro-States (Part I of III)
Norway manages its oil wealth much better than Canada does Petroleum is a resource unlike any other. It is the world’s most strategically important and…
Time for an adult conversation on the fallout from the petro-boom
Thomas Mulcair’s claim that the Canadian manufacturing sector has been adversely affected by fallout from the Alberta petro-boom— through a mechanism known to economists as…
Brief Presented to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
Download 214.99 KB 8 pages This brief, presented to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, analyzes the impact of key measures in…
Managing Oil Wealth
The Alberta/Canada Model vs. the Norwegian model The post-2000 petroleum-led resource boom is substantially reshaping the Canadian economy. It has driven up the dollar exchange…
Federal budget worsens inequality, high unemployment future
The 2012 federal budget, which purports to deliver “jobs, growth and long-term prosperity,” does nothing of the kind. Make no mistake, this is an austerity…
Cinq critères d’évaluation du budget fédéral
Le prochain budget du gouvernement – si les annonces se révèlent exactes – pourrait changer fondamentalement l’orientation du Canada. Un budget d’austérité ne ferait pas…
Five Tests By Which to Evaluate the Federal Budget
The coming government budget–if the advance billing is accurate– could fundamentally change the direction of this country. An austerity budget would not only threaten Canada’s…
A Tale of Two Austerity Hardliners
Conservative soul mates, Stephen Harper and British Prime Minister David Cameron, were in Davos, Switzerland a month ago lecturing Eurozone leaders on how to get…
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