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1. Is Boeing really committed to Canada as much it claims? I hope not

   I don’t know about you, but I’m getting tired of those Boeing commercials where the aerospace giant (headquartered in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.) tells us how committed it is to Canada. The ads began shortly after the U.S. International ...

2. Canada's growing Indigenous populations put pressure on federal and provincial budgets

   As reported this week in various media outlets, Ontario now has the largest population of Metis people in Canada. All Indigenous populations—First Nation, Metis, Inuit—are increasing at a rate more than four times greater than the non ...

3. Government spending—the problem in Newfoundland and Labrador

   The public finances of Newfoundland and Labrador are in a bit of a pickle after a period that saw considerable improvement as the province benefitted from the offshore oil and gas boom. In the wake of the collapse of the cod fisheries in ...

4. New Brunswick—lowest real GDP and employment growth rates in Canada

   While Atlantic Canada faces economic challenges, the case of New Brunswick has become particularly stark. Over the past decade, New Brunswick has experienced the lowest provincial growth rates in real GDP and employment. And like the ...

5. 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 ...

6. Canada’s federal deficits would be much worse without Alberta

   The prevailing narrative surrounding the post-2008 recovery in Canada is that the country weathered the storm significantly better than the United States, and has emerged in relatively strong fiscal shape (though certainly not unscathed) ...

7. Provincial and local governments should make infrastructure decisions, not Ottawa

   Last week, and as part of Ottawa’s multi-billion infrastructure spending plan, Amarjeet Sohi, federal minister of infrastructure and communities, wrote letters to his ministerial counterparts in each province and territory laying out ...

8. 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. ...

9. Prime Minister Trudeau selling Canadians false bill of goods on infrastructure

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, May 19, 2017 You’d think that a prime minister would be intimately familiar with one of his government’s signature policy initiatives. However, regarding Ottawa’s multi-billion dollar infrastructure plan, a recent ...

10. 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 ...