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1. Alberta’s reform budget in perspective

   Much has been made about the recent Alberta Budget, which proposes to reduce provincial government program spending (all spending excluding interest costs) from $54.4 billion in 2018-19 to $53.5 billion by 2022-23, a 1.6 per cent nominal ...

2. What’s Changed, By How Much, and What Remains to be Done: An Analysis of Alberta’s Budget

   Since 2008/09, Alberta has run a nearly uninterrupted string of budget deficits. This bulletin analyzes the recently tabled 2019 Alberta budget to assess the extent to which it represents a change of course from the policy approach that has ...

3. Alberta ready for another ride on the Resource Revenue Roller-coaster

   Appeared in Maclean's, December 4, 2019 Alberta’s government finances are in shambles. Last year, the province ran a $6.7 billion operating deficit. Even this deficit number, however, understates Alberta’s fiscal woes because last year the government ...

4. Alberta’s fiscal plan—put the pedal to the metal

   Based on last week’s provincial budget, the Kenney government in Alberta plans to return to sounder fiscal ground. Since 2008, the province has run large deficits, turning a balance sheet in the black up to $35 billion to a net debt of ...

5. Premier Ford should look west for deficit-reduction strategy

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, October 30, 2019 Last week, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s government tabled its first budget, which was also likely Alberta’s most consequential budget in 25 years. Indeed, with its first budget, the Kenney government promised ...

6. Alberta’s era of fiscal complacency is over

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, October 24, 2019 On Thursday, the United Conservative Party led by Premier Jason Kenney delivered its first budget. On the campaign trail, UCP members regularly stressed the need to tackle Alberta’s deficit, which is ...

7. Alberta’s budget at a glance

   Today’s Alberta budget represents a marked departure from recent fiscal policy in the province. Alberta governments of various stripes have run nearly uninterrupted deficits since 2008/09, and the province has gone from having $35 billion ...

8. Kenney government should discard ‘wait and hope’ budget strategy

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, October 23, 2019 With the federal election now behind us, all political and policy eyes in Alberta have turned to the Kenney government’s first budget, to be tabled Thursday. We’ll likely learn a lot about how the United ...

9. Balance Alberta’s budget sooner—limit growth of debt interest costs

   The Government of Alberta has run nearly uninterrupted deficits since 2008/09, through good economic times and bad. These deficits have taken a serious toll on Alberta’s once strong public finances. Before this string of deficits, the ...

10. To balance the budget, Alberta must ditch it’s big-spending ways

    Appeared in the Calgary Sun, October 16, 2019 Next week, the Kenney government in Alberta will table its first budget. The government has signalled it’s serious about tackling the province’s budget deficit. The big question remains—exactly how will it do ...