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1. Prime Ministers and Government Spending: Updated 2021 Edition

   Per-person federal program spending (adjusted for inflation) reached $17,121 in 2020-21, by far the highest level in Canada’s history. Non-COVID-related per-person spending in 2020-21 was $11,165. Moreover, federal spending is estimated to reach ...

2. Prime Ministers and Government Spending: 2021 Edition

   Ottawa spent twice as much per Canadian in 2020 ($17,091) as it did at height of WWII ($7,769) ...

3. Prime Ministers and Government Spending: 2021 Edition

   Federal program spending in 2021 will reach a projected $11,370 per person—or 18.7 per cent of the economy. ...

4. Examining Federal Debt in Canada by Prime Ministers Since Confederation, 2020

   Canada’s 23 prime ministers have each left a legacy, and each of those legacies has an effect on all Canadians. One element critical to an analysis of each prime minister is whether he or she left the federal government more or less indebted than ...

5. Prime Ministers and Government Spending: 2020 Edition

   This bulletin measures the level of per-person program spending undertaken annually by prime ministers, adjusting for inflation, since 1870. (The years from 1867 to 1869 were excluded due to a lack of inflation data). Per-person spending spiked ...

6. Prime Minister Trudeau cements his ‘debt’ legacy

   Appeared in the Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal, April 29, 2019 With this year’s federal budget, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau firmly established his fiscal legacy. No Canadian prime minister has spent more money (per person, inflation-adjusted) or ...

7. Examining Federal Debt in Canada by Prime Ministers Since Confederation, 2019

   Canada’s 23 prime ministers have each left a legacy, and each of those legacies has an effect on all Canadians. One element critical to an analysis of each prime minister is whether he or she left the federal government more or less indebted than ...

8. A brief walk through history—government spending by prime minister

   After more than 151 years of Confederation, it’s informative to look back at the spending records of Canada’s 23 prime ministers and see how those records relate to Ottawa’s changing role in society. In a recent study, we analyzed ...

9. Prime Ministers and Government Spending: 2019 Edition

   This bulletin measures the level of per-person program spending undertaken annually by prime ministers, adjusting for inflation, since 1870. (The years from 1867 to 1869 were excluded due to a lack of inflation data). Per-person spending spiked ...