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1. Contrasting the Budget Rules of Chrétien and Trudeau: Part 1

   With the federal deficit for 2020-21 now expected to easily exceed $110 billion and debt mounting, it’s worthwhile to compare the budget rules employed by the current government with those of the most fiscally successful government in ...

2. Trudeau government rejects almost every principle of historic 1995 Liberal budget

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, March 6, 2020 If recent history is any guide, the Trudeau government will table its next federal budget sometime next month. Last month, however, marked the 25th anniversary of the 1995 budget, the most important and ...

3. Trudeau government should learn from Chrétien-era tax relief

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, March 4, 2020 As the Trudeau government prepares to table its 2020 budget, it should reflect on another federal budget from 25 years ago when the Chrétien government took decisive action to balance the budget (after ...

4. The Budget That Changed Canada: Essays on the 25th Anniversary of the 1995 Budget

   February 28th, 2020, is the 25th anniversary of one of the most important federal budgets in Canada’s history. It took decisive steps to finally solve a problem of runaway deficits and debt that had begun in the late 1960s and grown worse, almost without ...

5. Candidates ignore federal budget on campaign trail

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, September 29, 2019 Unless you’ve been living underground, you’ve already heard plenty from party leaders this federal election, which is less than two weeks old. And yet, we’ve heard almost nothing from the Liberals, ...

6. Ottawa’s net debt projected to hit $859 billion by 2023-24

   With a federal election coming in the fall, the absence of policy debate on the federal debt is disappointing. Since 2013-2014, the interest-bearing debt of the federal government has increased from $904 billion to $1.025 trillion, a 13 ...

7. Both Trudeau and Harper increased size of federal government

   Appeared in the Moncton Times & Transcript, June 10, 2019 As the fall federal election approaches, political commentators bombard Canadians with sometimes misleading rhetoric. Such rhetoric undermines the public’s understanding of good policy, and on ...

8. Alberta still keeps federal finances afloat

   Alberta’s major contributions to federal finances during the recent energy boom are well known, though the magnitude may not quite be understood. For example, during the 2014/15 fiscal year, Albertans paid more than $27 billion more in ...

9. Trudeau government's 2019 budget full of puzzling contradictions

   Appeared in the Moncton Times & Transcript, April 2, 2019 Several commentators have noted the “thrown together” nature of the 2019 federal budget released last month. One of the outcomes, of what seems to be several ill-considered initiatives, is that ...

10. Budget 2019 underscores Trudeau government’s economic delusion

    Appeared in the Vancouver Province, March 27, 2019 Over the past three-and-half years, this federal government has continued to claim that its fiscal policies have spurred economic growth. Last week’s federal budget continued that trend. The reality, ...