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1. With Ottawa on track to balance the budget, what comes next?

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, Waterloo Region Record, Guelph Mercury, and New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, February 2014 "Some people will say this budget is boring," finance minister Jim Flaherty remarked after unveiling Tuesday's ...

2. Too early to declare the deficit slain(2)

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, Kelowna Daily Courier, and Penticton Herald, November 2013 After federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty unveiled his latest financial plan Tuesday, much of the media hype centred on the government's larger than expected ...

3. Balanced budget requires tough choices, not wishful thinking

   Appeared in Globe and Mail Economy Lab “There’ll be no doubt that we’re balanced in 2015,” federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told reporters after recently meeting with a group of private sector economists. This is among Mr. Flaherty’s most categorical ...

4. Ottawa drops hints for 2014 budget

     Fiscal policy is really about taxes and spending and the federal government recently provided some hints on its plans in these areas. In the recent Speech from the Throne, the government reaffirmed its commitment to balancing the budget by 2015-16 and ...

5. The stimulus spending never stopped

   Appeared in the Financial Post The key litmus test for the Harper government’s 2013 budget was always going to be how realistic it was with respect to achieving a balanced budget by 2015-16. The governing Tories have staked both their economic and ...

6. Harper's bloated budgets shouldn't earn Frum's praise

   Appeared in the National Post Canada's Conservative government deserves praise on a number of fronts. Since coming to power, the Tories have ended the reflexively relativist approach to foreign policy, tackled supposedly politically sensitive ...

7. Canada's red-ink budgets: 45 of the last 65 years

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald Ever since the last recession, Canadians have been informed by pundits and the political class that stimulus spending—perhaps better labelled as “binge” spending—was critical to Canada’s economic recovery. But extra ...

8. The Conservatives' no-cut budget

   Appeared in the Financial Post There it was on the front page of The Globe and Mail: $5.2-billion [in] total spending cuts. The Toronto Star screamed: Tories slash spending in fiscal overhaul, while CTV proclaimed: Budget to cut spending nearly $6-billion ...

9. Flaherty has opportunity to deliver the prudent budget that Falcon didn't

   Appeared in Business in Vancouver With economic uncertainty lurking around every corner, it’s critical that governments across Canada show fiscal discipline and put forth prudent budgets. Here in B.C., Finance Minister Kevin Falcon reassured British ...

10. Cut $10-billion now; Flaherty should drop entire departments and programs

    Appeared in the Financial Post On Monday, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty held his traditional pre-budget consultation with a number of private-sector economists, who all appear to be predicting improved growth in the Canadian economy for the coming year. ...