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1. 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 ...

2. Are the Provinces Really Shortchanged by Federal Transfers?

   In recent years, government officials from several provinces and a number of commentators have suggested that inadequate transfers from the federal government are a contributing factor to the persistent deficits that exist in several provinces. This study ...

3. The Cost of Government Debt in Canada

   A major theme of this year’s federal and various provincial budgets is continuing deficit spending and growing government debt. The result of recent deficits and debt accumulation is that the combined federal and provincial net debt has increased from ...