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1. New federal government should pursue less-painful climate plan

   The Trudeau government’s climate plan has design flaws that will unnecessarily hurt Canada's economy. ...

2. 2021 budgets establish uncertain future for government finances in Canada

   The Trudeau government forecasts a $154.7 billion budget deficit in 2021/22. ...

3. Trudeau ‘childcare’ plan remains opaque, contradicts other federal policy

   The plan calls for $27.2 billion over the next five years to reduce daycare costs. ...

4. Federal budget lacks realistic recovery plan despite all the red ink

   The federal debt-to-GDP ratio will reach 51.2 per cent, the highest level since 1999. ...

5. Federal Budget 2021—a preview of what you won’t see

   At 79 per cent, Canada had the fastest growth in its debt-to-GDP ratio in the G-7. ...

6. Canadians will pay for Trudeau government’s record spending

   Ottawa ran budget deficits worth a total of $94.1 billion from 2015/16 to 2019/20. ...

7. Government policies hurting—not helping—on several fronts

   Picture if you will the following scenario. There’s a forest fire underway. How to deal with it? One logical approach is to deploy firefighters and waterbombers to extinguish the fire. Another approach is to light a number of smaller and ...

8. Canadians will pay for Trudeau government’s red ink

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, November 20, 2019 Less than a month since the federal election, the latest projections from the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) already suggest Canadians can expect larger federal deficits than previously estimated. The ...

9. Federal Deficits Then and Now: Is Canada Repeating the Fiscal Mistakes of 1965 to 1995?

   From 1965 to 1995, the Canadian federal government repeatedly ran deficits, accumulating debt, a habit that culminated in the near crisis of the mid-1990s. After a period of reform beginning in 1995, Canada returned to deficits in 2008/09. While ...

10. The Trudeau and Ford governments—two fiscal statements, one debt problem

    Appeared in the National Newswatch, November 14, 2018 Both the Ford government in Ontario and the Trudeau government in Ottawa will release their fall fiscal and economic statements this month. Despite a tendency to compartmentalize these separate events, ...