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  1. Fiscal Lessons for Atlantic Canada from Saskatchewan

    COVID-19 and the related economic recession have thrown governments across Canada into varying degrees of fiscal peril. In Newfoundland & Labrador, the challenges of rapidly increasing debt and large deficits have created perhaps the largest fiscal ...

  2. Freeland doubles down despite dismal pre-COVID economic numbers

    The Trudeau government ranks last on average total household income growth. ...

  3. Federal government’s spending rationale based on misleading debt picture

    Canada has the fifth-highest level of total indebtedness (relative to the size of our economy) among 29 industrialized countries. ...

  4. Caution Required When Comparing Canada’s Debt to that of Other Countries

    The federal government continues to rationalize its debt-financed spending based on international comparisons showing Canada with the lowest level of debt in the G7. Of the two broad measures of debt, gross debt includes most forms of debt while ...

  5. Tax burden growing in Canada, higher taxes loom on the horizon

    The federal and provincial governments project combined budget deficits of $233.5 billion in 2021. ...

  6. Canadians Celebrate Tax Freedom Day on May 24, 2021

    In 2021, the average Canadian family will earn $124,659 in income and pay an estimated $48,757 in total taxes (39.1%). If the average Canadian family had to pay its taxes up front, it would have worked until May 23 to pay the total tax bill imposed on it ...

  7. Federal government’s OAS increase typifies bad policy

    The government expects to borrow $331.9 billion over the next five years, bringing the national debt to at least $1.5 trillion. ...

  8. Measuring Ontario’s Regional Prosperity Gap

    By global standards, Ontario is a prosperous place. Ontarians enjoy living standards and access to opportunities that are the envy of much of the world. However, within its own economic region, Ontario is an economic laggard. This bulletin ...

  9. As Trudeau government tables budget, don’t be fooled by positive short-term economic news

    Between 2016 and 2019, per-person GDP grew at an average annual rate of only 0.8 per cent. ...

  10. Trudeau government keeps ‘imagining’ while Canadians suffer the economic consequences

    For the 45 research projects approved, almost $100 million had been committed but not necessarily spent. ...