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  1. Fumbling the Alberta Advantage: How Alberta Squandered a Decade of High Energy Prices

    It is well-known that Alberta’s provincial budget is highly dependent on resource revenues. Over the last decade, as a proportion of total revenues, resource revenues have accounted for as much as 40% (2005/06) and as low as 19% (2009/10). In the most ...

  2. The Myth of Education Spending Cuts in Alberta

    Appeared in the Fox Creek Times and Okotoks Western Wheel It’s budget season in Edmonton but Premier Prentice has already announced a five per cent across-the-board reduction in program spending to help deal with an expected $7 billion-plus deficit. Of ...

  3. The myth of education spending cuts in Canada

    Appeared in the Daily Courier and Woodstock Sentinel Review It’s budget season again, with provincial governments across Canada delivering their annual budgets amid a backdrop of falling commodity prices and provincial deficits. And once again, a ...

  4. Smart reform can fix Alberta’s finances

    Appeared in the Edmonton Sun The severity of Alberta’s fiscal problems hit home with many Albertans this week as Premier Prentice announced that the upcoming provincial budget will include an across-the-board five per cent spending cut. In light of ...

  5. Balancing the Ontario budget by 2017-18 just a pipe dream

    Appeared in Waterloo Region Record, Stratford Beacon Herald, Woodstock Sentinel Review, and Winnipeg Free Press Ontario’s provincial government wants a balanced budget for the 2017-18 fiscal year, and Finance Minister Charles Sousa is adamant that Ontario ...

  6. Ontario debt gouges tomorrow’s taxpayers for today’s spending

    Appeared in the National Post Many Ontarians have likely heard a horror story or two about their government’s growing debt and the resulting strain on public finances. You can’t blame them. Sources of evidence abound. Consider the sobering comparisons ...

  7. Ontario’s Debt Balloon: Source and Sustainability

    The Ontario government’s net debt has expanded from 28% of the provincial economy in 2008/09 to an expected 40% in 2014/15. This represents an increase of over $117 billion or $7,800 more debt per On-tarian. The debt-to-GDP ratio is now much higher than ...

  8. Off-balance: Ontario growing expenditures faster than revenues

    Appeared in the Battlefords News-Optimist Ontario’s provincial government wants a balanced budget for the 2017-18 fiscal year, and Finance Minister Charles Sousa is adamant that Ontario will reach that goal. Given the arrival of spring budget season, the ...

  9. Digging Alberta out of the deficit hole

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald, January 31, 2015 Alberta Premier Jim Prentice has warned Albertans that the current fiscal year’s projected surplus has turned into at least a $500 million deficit and that next year’s budget will sink deeper into red-ink ...

  10. Government workers' compensation out of line with the private sector

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald As Alberta’s provincial and municipal governments grapple with declining oil revenues and a weakening economy, a sober review of government spending should be part of any belt-tightening initiative. One place to start is the ...