Tag: deficit

Despite unprecedented stimulus, Canada’s annual real GDP growth over the past four years has remained stuck in the range of ...

Our reliance on deficits to prop up spending while incomes stagnate has left us poorer economically and has weakened our ...

The 2019 budget reveals the government’s attempt to make a budgetary deficit a central part of its political argument, writes ...

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 ...

OTTAWA, ON (February 14, 2019):  A recent series of speeches, articles, and debates is provoking big questions about deficits and ...

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

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

The Trudeau government cannot blame its budgetary deficit on its predecessor, external shocks or other factors, writes Sean Speer. By ...

Politics in the United Kingdom is currently focused on a debate between so-called “austerity” and public investment. The past seven ...

The government has shown a troubling predisposition to deficits and spending, writes Sean Speer. We need a renewed focus on ...

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