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  1. Premier Ford should look west for deficit-reduction strategy

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, October 30, 2019 Last week, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s government tabled its first budget, which was also likely Alberta’s most consequential budget in 25 years. Indeed, with its first budget, the Kenney government promised ...

  2. Canada’s Past Fiscal Leaders Are Now Fiscal Laggards: An Analysis of 2017 Provincial Budgets

    Around the turn of the 21st century, Alberta and Ontario could both boast of having comparatively sound public finances relative to most other provinces. In recent years, however, serious fiscal problems have emerged in both provinces. Alberta and Ontario ...

  3. Alberta’s run of deficits tower over Ontario’s worst

    Appeared in the Financial Post, May 30, 2017 Over the past decade, Ontario emerged as the poster child for poor fiscal management in Canada, due largely to the province’s deep run of deficits. However, thanks to a decade of rapid spending growth and ...

  4. Race to the Bottom: Comparing the Recent Deficits of Alberta and Ontario

    Alberta’s public finances are deteriorating rapidly, with the provincial government set to run a cumulative budget deficit of $27.6 billion over the three-year period from 2015/16 to 2017/18. Until recently, by far the largest deficits of any ...

  5. Dear Alberta, please don’t make the same mistakes we did in Ontario

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, August 30, 2016 Alberta recently released its first quarter fiscal update, which showed that the province’s budget deficit this year will be even bigger than expected, weighing in at $10.9 billion. The grim headlines and eye ...

  6. Alberta poised to outdo Ontario on budget deficits

    Appeared in the Financial Post, August 24, 2016 A recent analysis from the federal government compared the economic damage done to Ontario’s auto sector during the financial crisis to the damage done to Alberta’s energy sector during the recent stretch of ...

  7. Notley following Wynne’s failed Ontario strategy on deficits and debt

    Appeared in the Calgary Sun, April 12, 2016 In her recent “kitchen table address” about the state of Alberta’s finances, Premier Rachel Notley confirmed her government will once again increase spending in 2016/17, despite the province’s deep deficit. It ...