Who was Barbara Mitchell?
  1. Search
  2. Jason Clemens
  3. government spending
  4. Site

Search

Search results

  1. Trudeau moving Canada towards American-style government with more centralized decision-making, federal spending, borrowing

    In next month’s throne speech (and possible fall budget), Prime Minister Trudeau may move us closer to a more U.S.-style government in terms of the balance between the federal and provincial government and public finances. One of ...

  2. Expanding government won’t help Canada’s recovery

    Enough signals have been sent by the federal government over the last few weeks for Canadians to formulate reasonable expectations about the upcoming throne speech next month and what might be included in the government’s plan for ...

  3. Prime Ministers and Government Spending: Updated 2020 Edition

    This essay updates the previous 2020 measure of per-person program spending by prime ministers, adjusting for inflation, since 1870. This essay focuses on the potential level of spending in 2020 based on the government’s response to the COVID ...

  4. There’s a lot we can’t control—but we can control spending

    Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, August 26, 2019 The mid-1960s to 1995 was a terrible period for federal government finances in Canada. The government borrowed every year but one, interest costs consumed ever-greater shares of revenues, the country’s ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Who's better having the money—governments or individual Canadians

    Appeared in the Financial Post, January 17, 2018 Much, if not all policy debates, ultimately boil down to a single fundamental question—is the city, province or country, and more specifically its residents, better off having more or less of their income. ...

  7. 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. ...

  8. Prime Ministers and Government Spending: A Retrospective

    This bulletin measures the level of per-person program spending undertaken annually by each prime minister, adjusting for inflation, since 1870.  1867 to 1869 were excluded due to a lack of inflation data. Per-person spending spiked during World ...

  9. Chrétien Consensus begins in Saskatchewan under the NDP

    This is the first of several blog posts based on the recently released book the End of the Chrétien Consensus?, which chronicles the emergence and success of the policies of this era as well as the move away from these policies over the ...

  10. 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 ...