Economy and Budget
Reaction to the 2013 federal budget
National Citizens Coalition: Last year, the government took on entitlement spending reform in addressing Old Age Security,” says Stephen Taylor, Director of…
Economy and Budget
39 posts in Economy and Budget from Stephen Taylor's archive of Canadian political commentary.
Economy and Budget
#eap13: Download Jim Flaherty’s 2013 Budget
UPDATE: Lockup is over, check below for the files Asking yourself “where can I download the budget”? You’ll be able to do that here at 4pm today after budget…
Economy and Budget
F-35s and lifecycle accounting
While we’re looking at lifecycle costs of the F-35 program, we should look at some other costs over their “lifecycle”. The CBC (which looks like it’ll be…
Economy and Budget
Healthcare spending scandals
Yesterday, I joined Brian Lilley at Sun News to talk about how provincial health administrators are bleeding the public healthcare budget dry. Click “play” on…
Economy and Budget
Stunning statistic
If Quebec were a country, its debt-to-GDP ratio would be 5th highest of the OECD countries. Ahead of Iceland, Greece, Italy, and Japan. Source In related news,…
Economy and Budget
Early budget details
It’s budget week for the federal government and as we’ve seen with previous budgets, some details are starting to leak out already. Here are some likely…
Canadian Business
Canadian spectrum announcement
The Harper government has just released word that it is making significant policy changes to ownership of the Canadian spectrum with respect to wireless…
Economy and Budget
This is hopeful
QMI reports, Ottawa envisage de faire des coupes de l’ordre de 10 % dans son prochain budget, soit l’équivalent de 8 milliards $ par année, a précisé le…
Economy and Budget
Do you want the world to be a better place?
Great video on the correlation between economic freedom and markers for prosperity, happiness and societal well-being. Congrats to the Fraser Institute for…