Halifax—Nova Scotia suffers from tunnel vision on the economic problems and solutions facing the province. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia just released a publication, A New Economy Needs Child Care, in an attempt to take the blinders off.
Government finance
TORONTO – The Ontario government tabled a budget today that seeks balance by 2017-18 but kicks the can down the road on needed investments in public services and a long overdue tax cut rethink, say economists from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Ontario (CCPA).
The budget procrastinates by underinvesting in the province’s own poverty reduction strategy, in education, post-secondary education, child care, and health care.
OTTAWA—Today’s federal budget will do little to revitalize Canada’s sluggish job market and slow economic growth due to collapsing corporate investment in the tar sands, says the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
This report contends that the 2015 federal budget may deliver a surplus, but will fall short on delivering solutions to many of the problems facing Canadians. Accordingly, it puts forward fully-costed solutions to five pressing issues, none of which is likely to be included in the upcoming federal budget: job creation, child poverty, safe drinking water, affordable child care, and climate change. Each is drawn from the 2015 Alternative Federal Budget.
OTTAWA—Tomorrow’s federal budget may deliver a surplus but it will fall short on delivering solutions to many of the problems Canadians are facing, says a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
Families in Canada deserve affordable child care, but costs vary widely across Canada. Many Canadians don’t know that Quebec has the least expensive child care in the country at $7.30/day. Quebec’s fixed fee puts the province at the top of the list for child care affordability, meanwhile in big cities like Toronto, parents pay $49/day, and in Vancouver it's $41 a day (for toddlers/preschoolers).
HALIFAX— If Nova Scotia hopes to move forward, the current tax system must change. Cuts to corporate taxes and income taxes for the highest earners and increasing reliance on consumption taxes will not help the majority of Nova Scotians, nor will they help us to build a province that is prosperous and just.
In the lead-up to the release of the Nova Scotia provincial budget, the CCPA-NS has published a series of 'budget watch' primers to help Nova Scotians better understand the government’s budgetary decisions. When the budget is released, it is important to ask questions about the government budget’s impact on us, our families and our communities. The primers are designed to provide Nova Scotians with the information necessary to weigh the choices made by our government.
HALIFAX—The Nova Scotia government is set to release the provincial budget on April 9. To help Nova Scotians understand the government’s budgetary decisions, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-NS (CCPA-NS) is releasing a series of budget watch primers.
The CCPA-NS budget watch primers are designed to provide Nova Scotians with the information necessary to weigh the choices made by our government. When the budget is released, it is important to ask questions about the government budget’s impact on us, our families and our communities.
In honour of Family Day, and in anticipation of Budget Day, we've calculated what it would cost to actually put families first.