Federal Budget 2024

Budget 2024 ramps up spending, projects a nearly $40 billion deficit, and increases taxes on capital gains, which will further deter individuals and businesses from investing in Canada. Read our expert commentary below.

• Ottawa’s capital gains tax hike—final nail in ‘business investment’ coffin

  (Appeared in Business in Vancouver) by Tegan Hill and Jake Fuss

• Federal government’s fiscal record—one for the history books

  by Jake Fuss and Grady Munro

• Latest federal budget will continue trend of negative outcomes for Canadians

  (Appeared in National Newswatch) by Matthew Lau

• Irresponsible fiscal management—the main theme of government budgets in 2024

  by Jake Fuss, Tegan Hill, and Alex Whalen

• Canadians should decide what to do with their money—not politicians and bureaucrats

  (Appeared in the Winnipeg Sun) by Jake Fuss and Grady Munro

• Federal government's 'fudget budget' relies on fanciful assumptions of productivity growth

  (Appeared in the Financial Post) by Niels Veldhuis and Jake Fuss

• New capital gains hike won’t work as claimed but will harm the economy

  (Appeared in the Globe and Mail) by Alex Whalen and Jake Fuss

• Federal budget fails to ‘break the glass’ on Canada’s economic growth crisis

  (Appeared in the Toronto Sun) by Grady Munro and Jake Fuss

• Federal government sticks to its soft fiscal targets—but this is no cause for celebration

  (Appeared in the Western Standard) by Grady Munro and Jake Fuss

• Federal budget’s scale of spending and debt reveal a government lacking self-control

  by Grady Munro and Jake Fuss