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Alternative Federal Budget decodes the spin, provides a guide to the Economic and Fiscal Update
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—Monday’s Economic and Fiscal Update is animated more by politics than economics. In the present political circumstances the temptation for…
Debt repayment arguments don’t add up: Report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—A new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives finds that, contrary to popular belief,…
The Vanishing Efficiency Gains of Debt Repayment
Alternative Federal Budget 2006: Technical Paper #2 Download 209.13 KB22 pages
CCPA forecasts large surpluses ahead, calls for increased transparency
OTTAWA—In its presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance today the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives announced that Canadians can continue to…
Federal Fiscal Forecasting Round 4
Report to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Download 196.34 KB
Free money? Think twice.
Free money for everyone when the Finance Minister makes a mistake! I’m referring of course to the government’s proposal to give a third of “unanticipated“…
The O’Neill Report on Federal Fiscal Forecasting
The dilemmas created by the government’s “no-deficit” fiscal rule Download 95.35 KB4 pages
Are days of large federal budget surpluses at an end?
OTTAWA–After years of large surpluses, today’s announcement of a $1.6 billion federal budget surplus in 2004/05 may seem surprisingly low. Does that mean the cupboard…
Federal budget-making process not meeting women’s needs—report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA — The federal government’s current budgetary process is leaving women behind. A new report by Isabella Bakker,…
Gender Budget Initiatives: Why They Matter in Canada
Alternative Federal Budget 2006: Technical Paper #1
Federal Fiscal Forecasting Round 3
Report to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Download 208.03 KB
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