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1. Trudeau government pushes national childcare onto premiers’ plate

   Budget 2021 includes $30 billion over five years for national childcare. ...

2. 35-stop shopping—coming soon to a government near you

   If more innovation programs were all we needed to solve our innovation problems, they would have been solved a long time ago. ...

3. Trudeau government 0-for-3 for budgets that improve fundamentals for growing the economy

   With the Trudeau government tabling its third budget, the script has become familiar. Each budget the government loudly proclaims platitudes about growing the economy and helping the middle class. In reality, there’s no magic lever to ...

4. When measured against history, Prime Minister Trudeau’s spending near peak levels

   The federal government plans to spend $8,337 (per person) this fiscal year. ...

5. Ottawa’s ‘innovation budget’ unlikely to spark innovation

   Government-sponsored venture capital initiatives tend to underperform compared to initiatives funded by the private sector. ...

6. Trudeau government stretches definition of ‘infrastructure’ too far

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, April 2, 2017 The 2017 federal budget revealed new details on the Trudeau government’s nearly $100 billion infrastructure spending plan. Canadians should know that, contrary to the government’s rhetoric, much of this spending ...

7. Another broken promise—federal government ditches latest fiscal pledge

   By 2019/20, Canada’s debt-to-GDP ratio is forecasted to be 31.5 per cent. ...

8. What does the federal budget mean for Ontario?

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, March 29, 2017 Last week, the Trudeau government released its 2017 budget. So what are the most important takeaways for Ontarians? Firstly, something we’re very familiar with in this province—growing government debt. The ...

9. 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 ...

10. Federal budget lacks big picture thinking

      In many ways Tuesday’s federal budget wasn’t all that surprising. Many of the government’s key initiatives were already announced (the so-called “Family Tax Cut” package) or telegraphed as part of the Conservatives 2011 platform (raising the TFSA annual ...