Tag: deficit

Parties are out-competing themselves in massive giveaways in the belief that deficit spending has no economic cost, writes Jack Mintz ...

Naughty little taxes are low in revenues (typically less than a half point of GDP) but high in virtue signalling, ...

The high level of government debt in Canada, when the economy is recovering rapidly, reflects an unwillingness to make hard ...

What kind of shape would the federal and provincial governments be in if the cost of borrowing were two percentage ...

Photo by Joseph Morris At some point, Freeland will have to tell us we can’t spend what we can’t afford, ...

The Trudeau government seems bent on bribing voters with mountains of new debt that it will leave for others to ...

Hiking taxes is the worst economic choice to achieve both growth and fiscal sustainability, writes Jack Mintz in the Financial ...

MLI senior fellow Philip Cross appeared on BNN Bloomberg to discuss the testimony of Evan Siddall, the president and CEO ...

A permanent 20% reduction of public service pay seems warranted. Either that or the doubling of pension plan contributions, writes ...

It was wrong to push up deficits during good times, which now hangs as a massive weight on the Trudeau ...

The combination of a decade of slow income growth and mounting debt has left Canada’s economy vulnerable to a shock, ...

Expect the federal government to go on a spending binge, making it much more difficult to keep debt as a ...