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The Budget That Changed Canada: Essays on the 25th Anniversary of the 1995 Budget
February 28th, 2020, is the 25th anniversary of one of the most important federal budgets in Canada’s history. It took decisive steps to finally solve a problem of runaway deficits and debt that had begun in the late 1960s and grown worse, almost without ...
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Budget advice—Bill Morneau, channel James Robb
National Post Radio wants my thoughts on the upcoming federal budget. I’m not privy to Ottawa gossip. To my mind, any sane person avoids it like the… measles. Who’s up, who’s down? What’s hot, what’s not? These are not considerations you ...
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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. ...
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William Watson: budget numbers we really need—benefit per dollar spent at the margin
My very favourite line from this week’s federal budget is “There are no public transit systems in Nunavut.” This is from a note to a table on page 92 of the Budget Plan. Well, duh, of course there aren’t any public transit systems in ...