This $51 billion increase in spending represents total growth of 20.1 per cent in just three years.
debt and deficit
February 16, 2018
12:35PM
Premier John Horgan’s NDP government campaigned on balanced budgets.
December 22, 2017
7:00AM
The $10.3 billion deficit the province plans to run this year is just shy of the provincial record of $10.8 billion set last year.
December 21, 2017
5:30AM
Prime Minister Trudeau is on track to increase per-person federal debt more than any other prime minister in Canadian history who didn’t face a world war or economic recession.
October 4, 2017
11:00AM
In the last 37 fiscal years, the province has only posted seven budget surpluses.
September 20, 2017
9:51AM
The province is expected to run a $192 million deficit in 2017-18.
August 11, 2017
7:30AM
Tucked away in the middle of the country, Manitoba has managed to keep a low profile when it comes to its fiscal situation, but it hasn’t balanced a budget since 2009.
August 3, 2017
1:00AM
August 1, 2017
12:30PM
From 2007 and 2015, Alberta contributed $188.6 billion more in taxes to Ottawa than it received in transfers or federal programs.
July 31, 2017
9:45AM
Over the past 26 years, government-sector debt in Canada has grown to more than $2.5 trillion.