OTTAWA—Today the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released the Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) fiscal stimulus plan, a one-year package that would create 407,000 jobs, boost the economy by 3%, and help protect Canadians from the worst of a recession.
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Publicly funded health care continues to be affordable in Canada according to a recent Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ analysis, Financing the Health Care System: Is Long-term Sustainability Possible?
Sean Burnett, a master’s student in the public administration program at the Johnson-Shoyama School of Public Policy, says that maintaining the Medicare system is a matter of choice and political will, not government’s ability to pay for it.
(Ottawa)—On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights a new international report concludes that budgets profoundly impact the attainment of human rights, and the attainment of human rights impacts the quality of our lives.
This conclusion flows from dozens of case studies from around the world, available today with the Canadian launch of the 2008 edition of the annual international Social Watch report.
TORONTO—During this economic downturn, Ontario could tolerate a deficit in its normal operations of up to $3 billion and provide temporary economic stimulus and support without falling into structural deficit, says an Ontario Alternative Budget report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
The report, by CCPA economist Hugh Mackenzie, recommends that the government use this fiscal room to make investments in infrastructure and public spending and to make significant down payments on key commitments.
Canadians had every right to be outraged by the federal government’s fall economic statement yesterday.
In the face of an economic slowdown that is already the most significant Canada has faced since 1981 and will almost certainly turn out to have been the most significant since the Depression of the 1930s, the government demonstrated stunningly small-minded, ideologically driven opportunism.
OTTAWA—The federal government’s response to Canada’s shaky economic situation is wildly out of step with what governments around the world are doing to protect their citizens, says the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
“This economic statement will deepen and lengthen Canada’s recession instead of cushioning the blow,” says CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan. “Slashing and burning federal spending and the government’s indecision on an economic stimulus package will actually contribute to a downward economic spiral.”