When spending is financed by large deficits, it can fuel inflation or impede economic growth.
economic growth
March 28, 2023
3:05PM
The budget speech never mentioned the word “entrepreneurship."
March 17, 2023
4:00AM
Between 2016 and 2019, the Trudeau government recorded average economic growth of 2.1 per cent compared to 4.6 per cent during the Chrétien years.
August 18, 2022
8:34AM
According to the OECD, Canada has the weakest prospects for per-person GDP growth between 2020 and 2060 among 17 countries.
June 9, 2022
8:22AM
Low levels of capital investment and expenditures on research and development contribute to Canada’s slow productivity growth.
April 11, 2022
3:03PM
In the last year of reliable data before the pandemic, government spending in Nova Scotia represented 60.2 per cent of the economy.
February 2, 2022
12:05PM
Free markets, not central planning, deliver economic growth and social harmony.
October 18, 2021
2:12PM
During the Trudeau period, business investment actually declined by 0.2 per cent.