Tag: budget

Spending in this budget is not concentrated in specific areas where government can make a difference, but spread far and ...

The Trudeau government’s deficit is increasingly driven by deliberate choices to spend more than it collects in revenues, writes Sean ...

In its Fall Economic Statement, the government now anticipates perpetual deficits with no return to budgetary balance on the horizon, ...

Minister Morneau is right to put competitiveness back at the centre of his agenda. It should have been there all ...

Ottawa shouldn’t be running deficits for deficit’s sake or spending for spending’s sake; protecting the federal government’s fiscal capacity must ...

In order to make sound budgetary choices the federal government need a fiscal policy framework that is evidence-based and is ...

Click here to listen to Munk Senior Fellow Sean Speer on Beyond the Headlines discussing Canadian fiscal policy in light ...

Watch Munk Senior Fellow Philip Cross discuss the upcoming federal budget on BNN.

OTTAWA, ON (Feb. 21, 2018): Tuesday’s federal budget will reveal whether the federal government’s plans to dramatically reduce the rate of ...

Watch Munk Senior Fellow Sean Speer comment on Ottawa's deficit and budget projections.

Canadians should refocus their attention on Ottawa's ballooning budgetary deficit, writes Sean Speer. By Sean Speer, April 4, 2017 A ...

The 2017 Budget does reveal incremental progress in certain policy areas, writes Sean Speer. But we need to be very ...