Tag: Philip Cross

The economy was doing well enough on its own without the government’s stimulus-heavy, hand-holding budget, writes Philip Cross. By Philip ...

There isn’t much chance of a Bank of Canada interest rate cut now that the federal government has spent its ...

Ottawa’s pledge of $500,000 for Statistics Canada to research foreign homebuyers’ expansion into Canada is unlikely to have much impact ...

Budget 2016 is proof that Canada’s new federal government doesn’t yet know how to reject unaffordable spending programs, writes Philip ...

A lot of anticipation surrounds budget 2016, as Canada’s new federal government prepares to table its first fiscal plan. MLI ...

MLI author Ian Lee says that, although it’s not a gigantic worry, Canadians should be concerned about the levels of ...

It’s not just governments – ordinary Canadians' borrowing shares some of the blame for this country’s ever-growing and unsustainable reliance ...

An inability to convince governments to pair a carbon tax with a corresponding income tax cut is just one of ...

The world’s investors aren’t going to wait for Canada to get its act together on liquefied natural gas, MLI Senior ...

Concern over the state of Canadians’ retirement savings is overblown, authors find, and what issues there are require a ‘scalpel’, ...

Falling oil prices. Big holes in budget deficits. A confusing Canadian dollar. Gas prices that refuse to fall. The economic ...

The abuse of sick leave in the civil service is just another sign of how the federal government fails to ...