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To deal with Trump, Trudeau should look to Chrétien
Appeared in the Huffington Post, June 5, 2017 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s father once famously compared living next to the U.S. to sleeping with an elephant—a twitch or a grunt south of the border can have big consequences for Canada. Well, President ...
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Budget 2017 spells end of the Chrétien Consensus?
Under the Trudeau government, deficits continue with no end in sight, debt is growing and taxes have increased. ...
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End of the Chrétien Consensus?
Governments in Edmonton, Toronto and Ottawa have markedly increased government spending. ...
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End of the Chrétien Consensus?
The Chrétien Consensus was an implicit agreement that transcended political party and geography regarding the soundness of balanced budgets, declining government debt, smaller and smarter government spending, and competitive taxes that emerged in the ...
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Why waste a budget? Trudeau should learn from Chretien and Martin
Appeared in National Newswatch, March 18, 2016 As Prime Minister Trudeau delivers his first budget next week, one that reportedly contains a deficit in excess of $30 billion, his government may want to consider the lessons learned by former Prime Minister ...